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i am normal and can be trusted not to put bugs in my code

The bug occurred because I tried to put "VII" and "VIII" in the array but I instead put "VII" and "VII" in the array and these duplicate values cased Bullshit to happen

I logged the array a gazillion times and never noticed there were two "VII"s in it because VII and VIII look similar already lmao

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There was an extremely funny bug in my simulation code. I fixed it and now it gets the same result up to three decimal points when I run 10,000,000 trials

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can some mutual double check my math?

Suppose you have a deck of cards with four suits numbered 1-14, and 22 trump cards, making 78 cards in total. Suppose you are dealt 15 cards and then given 1 additional card. What is the probability the additional card is has the same number of some other suited card in your hand?

the result is inconsistent with some brute force simulations I am doing in some code which is telling me that about 35.6% of the time the 16th card is a repeated suited card

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My roommate nerd sniped me and now I am doing mathematics on the back of an envelope

sam altman, ai 

I just learned about the fact that sam altman teased the release of GPT-5 by tweeting a picture of the death star

hi fedi! i’m selling stickers :heart_container: they are $3.50 each including domestic (US) postage.

the evil eyes sticker is 3.5” wide, the evil wins sticker is 3”. i drew the eyes sticker myself!

to give some context for the stickers: these are for paintball, but i liked the art so much i thought i would post them on here too! so if you want a soft-designed sticker, i’ve got some in stock!

payment is thru paypal/venmo/cashapp. dm me if interested!

@aescling and I seem to be going through about 2 gallons of water a day

I don't like having to do this, but me and my mom are short on rent this month. I'm unable to work to due to how disabling my rheumatoid arthritis is, so we'd really appreciate any help. We're short about 300 dollars.

venmo.com/u/jessinem17
cash.app/$JessineMondragon

This stupid idiot wasp in my room is trying its hardest to escape and keeps slamming into the upper half of my open window instead of flying through the sizeable open portion below

Urgent USpol call to action for science - ANYONE ANYWHERE CAN PARTICIPATE 

If you care about the advancement of science, I strongly urge you to comment on the US legislative proposal OMB-2026-0034-0001, which would allow federal grants to scientists to be terminated at any time, for any reason.

Because this is considered a rule change, it is not required to go through Congress to be put into effect. HOWEVER, there is a commenting period during which the public is allowed to submit comments on the proposal. OMB is required by law to read every comment and respond to every significant comment. Anyone can comment, and you can comment anonymously. INDIVIDUALIZED comments hold much more weight and are far more laborious to respond to than identical mass submissions.

This link and the attached media give more information about the rule change: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p

Here is the link to submit comments: regulations.gov/commenton/OMB- The deadline for comment submission is July 13, but earlier is better!

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