/lit/ - Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxUY0kxH80
This is sublime

don't post that pic m8 it make my brain hurt

>>6155933
JK Rowling's harvard graduation ceremony speech is pretty cool. they were probably all expecting her to just go "harry potter wooo" but she basically stood and told them not to be overprivileged fucks.
http://youtu.be/wHGqp8lz36c

>>6155949
You have four options and only one can be correct; however, two of the possible choices each represent the same answer. If all four choices were different then you would have a 25% chance of getting the question right, but with those two same choices that implies you have a 50% chance of choosing correctly.
This is incorrect because if only one answer represents the correct percentage out of 4 then it's not a 50% chance of guessing correctly.
C must be the correct answer by order of elimination, but this is incorrect because you cannot have a 0% chance of guessing correctly when you actually have a 25% chance of guessing correctly.
In short, OP's image is retarded.

The 3rd door you have to account for the variable

>>6155990
no, it's simple

because you have a 2/3 chance of picking an incorrect door in the first round and switching from an incorrect door always means winning, the odds are actually better if you switch

>>6155933
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_8cybujZjU
This man is what we want a woman to be.

>>6155933
A or D

>>6155933
B

Is someone being self referential again?

>>6155933
Lost territories with William Gibson.

>>6155990
No, there's simply no right answer. If it's C, then you still have a 25% chance of guessing it correctly.

>>6156049
>>6156179
>all these retards still thinking within the question and not above the question

it's a trick, you fools

>>6155933
my brother has a degree in math. this question is illogical IHO. this whole thread deserves to be shut down. the post is distracted by the pic IMO

>>6155933
Sure!

Lecture on Blood Meridian from Yale, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgyZ4ia25gg

meme-tastic DFW interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxUY0kxH80

based Harold Bloom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWi0AMyniYc

William S. Burroughs Doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwz_-rIVY2Q

Philip Roth interview with NPR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QeIJ_xO7ns

Don DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ_iDyzxxTE

>>6156507
>my brother has a degree in math. this question is illogical IHO.
lol who gives a fuck about your brother, that doesn't qualify you to make any statements

>>6156519
>Lecture on Blood Meridian from Yale
99% of the stupid shit people say about BM comes from this lecture

>>6156507
I have a PhD in memes and a masters in shitposting, and I think this thread should stay open.

>>6155933
Depending on your interests Bookworm has some decent interviews. I'll admit Silverblatt's not up on his game any more, but for a while there he was absolutely gold. All his old interviews and the current ones are available online for free.

There are a ton of interviews in the Paris Review...I've no idea what you want OP.

>>6156489
>C must be the correct answer by order of elimination, but this is incorrect because you cannot have a 0% chance of guessing correctly when you actually have a 25% chance of guessing correctly.
/lit/ implies reading...

I came to post this

>>6156587
ops >>6155946

It's C. If none of the answers are correct than you have no chance of randomly guessing the correct answer. Unfortunately if you guess zero than there's one correct answer and therefore C is incorrect.

>>6156574
don't start your posts with a really dumb statement if you want people to finish reading it lmao

>>6156613
>lmao
Is it that hard to concede that you jumped on the opportunity to snark it up?

>>6156623
oh i totally did, but that doesn't mean you can't be criticized for having really awkward speech patterns and phrasing things ass-backwards

>>6156641
U r mean.

>>6155946
Everything he said was spot on. This was in 2003, and it's only gotten so much worse since.

It's B, 50%. The two right answers are 25% and 25%, since we're assuming there can only be one correct answer, and since you can only select one, 25% is correct. Ergo, if you chose an answer completely at random, 1 out of 2 times you will choose 25%, hence answer B. If you chose B at random, technically you would get the question right, but choosing B at random is a 1/4 chance, hence supporting the theory of 25% being the correct answer, since you will get 25% 50% of the time. So think of it like this: the two answers 25% and 50% share a variable relationship, the former is the technically correct answer, and the latter is the correct answer IF there are double answers of the former, which effectively negates the former's validity since logically you can only choose one answer for the question in the first place. Another supporting theory would be thus: choosing 25% causes a logical invalidity in the solving of this problem, making the question effectively unsolvable, while choosing 50% shows a clear, logical solution to an otherwise unsolvable problem.

>>6157156
It's a fucking antimony you doofus

All three options are a priori incorrect. Jesus I hoped you enjoyed typing all that for your sake

>>6157156
I'd like to completely disregard your post since it's garbage in many ways.

Instead, I am gonna tell you a short story. This story essentially offers a proof for Goedel's first incompleteness theorem. I find it amusing because it is pointlessly convoluted, yet I suggest you read it anyway. Who knows, you might like it.

One Sunday evening, a guard wakes up one of the convicts in the royal prison and says "Bad news, pal. It's been decided you will be hanged next week." Indifferent to his own fate, the prisoner simply shrugs. "However," continues the guard, "according to the king's order, we are to make sure you will not be able to figure out in advance on which day we are gonna hang you. So your execution will come as a complete surprise." With this, the guard leaves.

The prisoner tries going back to sleep, but for some reason a single thought on the back of his mind keeps bothering him. He can't help but think "Hmm... they cannot possibly hang me on the next Sunday, can they? I mean, if I survive through Saturday, then I'll know for sure that Sunday is the day of my demise, since it's the last day of the week. Well, I guess it's not Sunday then." He keeps thinking. "But wait, doesn't it mean that they cannot hang me on Saturday either? After all, if I survive through Friday, and knowing that I won't be hanged on Sunday, I'll know for sure I am to be hanged on Saturday. So it's not Saturday. But, by the same logic, it cannot be Friday. Nor Thursday. Not even tomorrow, that is, Monday. So they won't kill me at all!" Filled with cursory joy from the elementary mental exercise, he falls asleep with a smile on the face.

He was hanged on Wednesday. To the prisoner, the execution came as a complete surprise.

>>6157277
*antinomy