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Jun 10Liked by William M Briggs

Sometimes I feel like the guy in the upper left corner.

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Jun 10Liked by William M Briggs

Looks like me in a chemistry class. I love physics and math, but chemistry is a necessary evil. Thermodynamics an even greater necessary evil. Probability and Statistics? Yes, but I never ever thought it might help me win the lottery, if I did I'd be into it more. It does pay well to know though especially in battling the arch enemy of engineers .... accountants.

Speaking of arch enemy, what's the probability that the US is under attack from the CCP in social media promotion of various social illnesses and also by the promotion of DEI at the corporate level. I'm thinking N=1. Don't need probability theory for that!

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Jun 10Liked by William M Briggs

Murphy's general laws: Nothing is as easy as it looks. Everything takes longer than you think. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

The older I get (and work as an engineer) the more I appreciate Murphy.

Not sure if the first general law is applicable here. I'll need to do some homework.

Murphy's general laws must have held at the moment of Creation.

Lucifer, the most brilliant creature ever created, fell and was condemned to hell.

Adam and Eve much much later failed later, but humans could be and were saved at a Horrific cost.

God holds everything in existence, that is why demons and some humans condemned to hell must burn forever.

Nothingness while a probability, can't happen. God saw that Creation was Good.

Is it just that the demons must burn forever in search of Nothingness? Well, God is in Heaven, and hopefully we too, and we know that His Justice and Mercy endure for Ever. So it must be Good.

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Here's a comment I received at YT about this video. Typical of those who have never learned how to question Science. "We already know, so you must be so wrong you're in a cult."

Very common attitude.

"What nonsense. What kinda weird cult is this? Probability is nothing else then the proportion of states of interest to possible states. Its a mathematical tool to grasp uncertainty and is successfully employed in many fields. Stop reading conspiracy theories and use your energy for something good."

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You're wrong. You obviously never heard of the power-law curve. It has no ass-in-tote. Your high school was all black-and-white. That´s why you´re boring.

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You are obviously a genius.

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In the first day of 1st grade, I arrived five minutes late to class because my mom couldn't speak English that great. The teacher said I was "tardy". I thought she meant I was some kind of RETARD.

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