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So if they change the flip rate of the toss does the result change?
It would actually make more sense to me if they had found that either heads or tails comes up slightly more as the two sides of the coin do not have the same mass when measured from the center of the coin.
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obermd wrote: either heads or tails comes up slightly more as the two sides of the coin do not have the same mass when measured from the center of the coin.
1. Coins wear over time, so unless the experimenters used mint-fresh coins, I would expect some variance in the results.
2. As the chance of landing on the preferred side is slightly higher than the chance of landing on the non-preferred side, I would expect the "first" side to turn up more frequently in the full sequence, as a rule.
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Just read the article. This is for coins that are caught. What about coins that are allowed to land and bounce around? For a real world example of this look at the coin toss in the NFL. The coin is allowed to land on the field and sometimes bounces.
As for coins that are caught, I discovered as a teenager that I could control the coin flip result by the way I caught it and then displayed the coin. That control was over 90% accurate, so I seriously doubt the randomness of any coin toss that's caught.
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Hear me out... What if they get a cat in a box containing a 'diabolical device' to flip the coins?
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Then the toss would always end in both heads and tails. And the cat would have knocked the device off the table.
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TNCaver wrote: And the cat would have knocked the device off the table. But would it be alive? or dead?
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Yes.
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A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Liquid Nitrogen
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Google announced today that passkeys are now the default sign-in option across all personal Google Accounts across its services and platforms. Did they get tired of protecting all the copies of qwerty and p@ssword1?
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Announcement that passkeys can be hacked in 3..2..
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Internet giants say a newly uncovered HTTP/2 vulnerability has been used to launch DDoS attacks that were far beyond any previously recorded. HTTP/2 was meant to speed things up
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Microsoft improved testing with the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for Visual Studio Code as part of the regular monthly update to the super-popular code editor. I think that "improves" includes a little wishful thinking
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Here's how IT engineers must adapt to the changes in their roles if they are to succeed in the IT field. By being non-traditional?
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Learn how to adapt. Period.
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...and there is the answer!
TTFN - Kent
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That's an option, yeah!
Sadly is still a bit away for me
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what a bull sh*t article...written by --- Our network of freelance writers represents your specialized audience: computer programmers, site reliability engineers, and security analysts. You can leverage the power of peer-to-peer conversation with technical content written for the market you need to reach.
Caveat Emptor.
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From the article's "highlights"
Quote: replacements or supplements to traditional IT roles, emphasizing specialization and broader skill sets.
OK, so which is it, more specialization or broader skills. These are contradictory. Didn't read past this point as the author is obviously either clueless or paid by the word.
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One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s. "Hail to the king, baby!"
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Ring’s Million Dollar Search for Extraterrestrials will feature a bona fide astrobiologist serving as a judge. The Truth is out there, on your doorstep
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Do Halloween alines count?
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nice way to market ring
Caveat Emptor.
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20 to 30 years ago, I took great pleasure in reading the website of "The One Million Dollar Challenge" of James Randi, who offered a million dollars to anyone who could demonstrate any supernatural or paranormal abilities under controlled test conditions.
Later the challenge was extended to cover certain 'golden ear' HiFi freak things, such as exceptional speaker cables with a price tag of hundreds of dollars per foot.
The website used to publish the complete correspondence between the candidate and the 'James Randi Educational Foundation' (JREF). Especially funny was all the excuses the candidates brought up for rejecting the test conditions required by James Randi. (He had worked as a highly recognized stage magician for many years before establishing JREF; he knows most of the tricks!)
From 1964 (when the challenge were first announced, then at USD 1000) to 2015, noone got even close to demonstrate their abilities under controlled conditions. Most of those who tried rejected the test conditions, either early in the preparatory phases or when the test was to be performed. Most never got as far as entering real negotiations about test conditions, and the JREF web site presented their correspondence explaining how the test requirements had to be changed for them to display their special abilities.
This correspondence log varied from entertaining to funny - and sometimes hilarious. I haven't been thinking of it for a few years, but now that I am reminded of it, I seriously miss it!
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Microsoft Mesh, now in public preview, is a new 3D immersive experience for the workplace, helping virtual meetings and events feel more like face-to-face connections. Who has been requesting this?
If people didn't like it when it was Second Life, or whatever Face^H^H^H^HMeta called their thing (metaverse?), or any of the other attempts at this, why are they going to jump now? Zoom/Teams is bad enough.
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