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Comment by pseudosavant

2 years ago

And I am almost certain I could win $10M from a lottery ticket. I'm not worried about that actually happening though because it is statically never going to happen.

https://i.imgflip.com/3bhvio.jpg

On the contrary, it happens every time.

  • I'll start investing in the lottery right away, now that I know it is a sure thing. It is the difference between cumulative probability of all tickets sold (which would be 100%) versus and discrete probability of a single ticket (0.000000003 for Powerball, basically zero).

    The cumulative probability of every `ffmpeg-english` command ever sent to OpenAI will likely be <5%, if not <1%, of all of the possible responses GPT-4 could give.

    • If you couldn't win why would people buy tickets? It's like saying god doesn't exist.

      I was just wondering what hilarious personal programming lottery stories people are not telling us.

      I rolled short 6 digit random unique orderNumbers one time and dropped the leading zeroes. There is an order without a number now.