jgershen
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Comment · 11 years ago
Published in 2013.
Comment · 11 years ago
It looks like it's less about "putting the fish to sleep" and more about simulating weeds with your fingers to avoid alarming the fish as you start to grab it.
Comment · 15 years ago
The "beserker equilibrium" hypothesis is a fun thought experiment, but it seems unlikely to me. Robin Hanson did a particularly good job writing about this here:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/12/berserker-breakout.htm...
Comment · 15 years ago
No.
Comment · 15 years ago
Actually, the probability that all decks ever shuffled are unique is also very high. We can approximate the probability that any two of the n decks shuffled in human history were identical as p=1-n^2/52!
Using the same estimate as the OP for n (1.56x10^23) gives p=3.02x10^-22. Still fantastically low.
Comment · 15 years ago
Thanks for submitting this. After seeing the article that claimed the design of the iCloud icon was brilliant because it included Fibonacci ratios, I desperately wanted to nail this article to the (other) author's monitor.
Whenever I see that kind of unjustifiable Fibonacci-worship, I get the same feeling I do when I read creation myths or just-so stories. It honestly hurt the first time I read the truth, and realized I was taught many of the outlandish claims this author points out as fact in grade school math classes.
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