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  • As other comment said, coin flips aren’t random. And it is really hard to find something truly random. For example computer random generators are based on current time, temperature,… which is chaotic enough to give us seemingly random numbers.

    If you would have truly random generator, I think, it would be really bad idea to use it. Let’s assume, you would listen to it (otherwise the AI could predict you wouldn’t). Because now you have 50% chance the AI is correct, you would in average get 0.5 * 1000000 + 0.5 * 0 = 500000 if choosing only one box and 0.5 * 1001000 + 0.5 * 1000 = 501000 if choosing both. Each could occure with 50% probability, giving 500500 on average. Which is for one boxes (and their main argument of average case) just over half of their expected outcome. And for two boxers, choosing both is always better then choosing at random, which is better than chossing one.

    This case with random generator is similar to the case Minute Physics made about someone else choosing for you.

    So, overall, it is interesting strategy, but I think it is worse than choosing deterministically.

    PS: I think this strategy would make the situation worse for everyone, because you undermine the trust in the AI making correct choices. It’s measured 99.99% correctness would fall towards 50%, based on how many people would do this. And trusting in the AI with 99.99% prediction rate is reasonable for one boxers. But the lower the measured probability falls, more people would switch to two boxes, which would worsen their outcome, even though AI could be almost flawless with people choosing on their own. So imagine going in as a first person, doing this, choosing two boxes based on coin, and winning big. The next person would probably choose 2 too and lose.









  • I think there should be written somewhere what the computer needs. For example 20V 3A ~ 60W. I don’t know how much voltage the super fast phone chargers have, but looking only at power isn’t enough.

    Just for curious readers: I noticed some annoyance with my laptop, it has 100W mode, but only with the original charger. So just plugging it into a dock with original charger attached limits the laptop to 65W only. And if I tried (mainly out of curiosity) charging with an insufficient phone charger, CPU switched to 300MHz and everything got very laggy. The same thing happened when I connected two of the USB ports together :D



  • There are some exceptions, for example I still hate a company for their yt ads I saw before I figured out how to block them on phone. It has been like 6 years, the company was sold and name was changed, but I still remember to hate it and avoid it. Also, good products don’t need advertisement, so if I can remember I saw an ad for something, I’d prefer other brand.



  • ji59@hilariouschaos.comOPtoSoftware Gore@lemmy.worldWindows...
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    6 months ago

    The memory issues got reálky annoying, so I switched to Fedora two weeks ago, since I found somewhere it is recommended for my laptop. It has a few minor issues like no working fingerprint sensor or I encountered some issues with GPU being slow. Playing 4k 120fps 60Mbps videos from a GoPro were lagging, but I can live with that 🙂