derpgon
Of course, a swing state
In one of Vsauce’s videos he suggested a good visualisation of the number of unique shuffles of a deck of cards that was originally suggested by Scott Czepiel.
Imagine you have a friend that is shuffling a deck of cards and ordering the deck uniquely every second. Also imagine that every action you take is completed instantaneously.
You stand on the equator. Wait a billion years. Then take a step. Wait another billion years. Then take another step. Continue this until you have got back to where you started.
Then take 0.02ml from the Pacific Ocean. Wait another billion years. Then take a step. Continue until you get back to where you started and take another drop out of the Pacific Ocean.
Repeat this process until the entire Pacific Ocean is empty. Then place a sheet of paper on the ground at sea level.
Refill the ocean and repeat - wait a billion years between steps as you walk around the equator, take a drop of water out of the Pacific Ocean every time you get back to where you started and place a piece of paper on the ground in a tower before refilling the Pacific Ocean and repeating.
When the tower of paper reaches the sun do you think that your friend has managed to produce each, unique ordering of the cards?
Nope! Not even close…
If you were to repeat all of the above 3000 times, then he’d be pretty much done.
Article for the sake of stirring up drama. Uncle Ben is a bad person, but that doesn’t mean he can’t have an opinion that someone likes (for example the development video mentioned in the FFF).
I also understand he is not a native English speaker and some words might get lost in translation. He is Czech, as I am, and I don’t really see anything wrong with what he wrote.
This is “mildly interesting” at most.
Get fucked, now put Trump behind bars and I’d finally have some faith in the system.
Well, I sure hope it can be repurposed when the bubble bursts.