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7130245 No.7130245 [Reply] [Original]

So /x/ just broke reality. How does that make you feel? Can any of you explain it?

>>>/x/15903177

>> No.7130257

>>7130245
It's a weather balloon. Nothing to see here.

>> No.7130260
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7130260

Yeah, it's simple probability:

There are 100 different possible combinations of digits in the last two digits of a post, all equally likely. If you predict the last two digits of your post, there is a 0.01 probability that you will be correct. Given the sheer volume of posts even on a comparatively sedate* board like /x/, such a GET is bound to happen fairly frequently so long as people attempt it on occasion.
This is not a place where GETs determine reality. You may be thinking of >>>/b/

*Disclaimer: /x/ is 7spoopy3me so I don't know personally what the post rate is

>> No.7130262

>>7130260

Ok, then explain the post made before the post that had a 0.01 probability of happening.

>> No.7130264

>>7130260
Its not "if 30,time travel is real" what is spoopy its the "dont be stupid" post which implies at "30 get" post.

>> No.7130269

>>7130245
Why is the 25 get significant here?

>> No.7130275

>>7130269
Because if you imply post before its posted and this said post correlate with the posted post which imply at timetravel then its spoopy. as. fuck.

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7130278

>>7130245
literally cancer
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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7130280

>>7130262
>>7130264
oh, okay.
that's conditional probability: the probability that both the previous post and the post in question correctly predicted the last two digits.
luckily, the person who made those posts controlled the probability that they would predict the same number, setting it to 1 by actually predicting '30' in both cases. If the post number matches one prediction, it matches the other, so the probability of getting it correct remains 0.01
it's no different from someone posting "the next post is doubles" and then the next post itself predicting doubles; if one gets it right, so does the next.

what IS a little bit impressive is guessing the whole post number. however, with a fairly slow post rate, it's not difficult to do. the dude made the first post, waited for the current post number to tick up, and then made the second post. even on a board as frenetic as /b/, people have done it with scripts.

>> No.7130285

>>7130260
are you guys this stupid?
seriously?
he just refreshed the front page until he saw the last post have a __29 get and immediately posted his post claiming it will be __30
in slowboards, works without fail

>> No.7130286

>>7130245
>>7130262
>>7130264
>>7130275
What's it like being retarded?

>> No.7130289

>>7130275
No it implies you have still have a 1 in 100 shot of getting the get you referenced, it doesn't change the probability unless you stack your gets if you do it 10000 times you'd succeed 100 times. Also /x/ is a slow board, so it's actually a much higher probability.

>> No.7130290

>>7130245
/x/ is a slow board, just like /sci/.
This post is >>7130289, how spoopy.

>> No.7130297

>If GET, then x is true.
Oh not this /b/tarded meme.

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7130299

>>7130285
99
proving

>> No.7130300

>>7130290
>>7130289
Noice, also check 'em.

>> No.7130303

>>7130299
>>7130300
Fukc yea

>> No.7130305

>>7130299
Checked.
On a slow board like /sci/, it is easier to get dubs, trips, etc.

>> No.7130306

Were forgetting the scenario in which someone simply wrote a script to write both posts

>> No.7130310

>>7130297

It's not the get that's spooky. The post before the get accurately predicted the contents of the get in the same thread before it was made. That's spooky.

>> No.7130326

>>7130310
>reads posts explaining how it's not spooky
>says it's spooky anyway
considersuicide.jpg

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7130331

>>7130326

My feelings have been hurt, the cyber police have been informed and for you, the consequences will never be the same.

>> No.7130342

>>7130331
kekked at the picture
didn't even know they made full-size B1 mannequins (droiddequins?) but am not remotely surprised