Today was a very interesting day because I got to witness two very low probability events:
(1) Me and my colleague had booked Uber to go home and the cab number was 7418. When we came outside, we found a car with the number 7419 waiting there and it was just a random private car that happened to have that number....what were the odds of that happening! Let's see, it would be 1/10000 (just read that P(B/A) = P(B) if events A and B are independent).
(2) During my morning walk today (which by itself is a low probability event), I came across this dog I see everyday and thought it was high time to name it. For some reason, I thought of the name Bonzo for it which surprised me that time too since it was not the kind of name I think of for dogs and didn't have any recent reference from where it could have popped up. Then later in office, when I opened the timepass walla paper to read today's Calvin & Hobbes, guess what I found (look at the last panel):
So cool, isn't it! :D
UPDATE: Today also I had two very low probability events happening around me! So I now have a new Douglas Adams-like scientific theory that there are sometimes ripples in the space-time 'fabric' which make it tilt in the favour of low probability events and so at such times, you see many low probability events happening ;)
(1) Me and my colleague had booked Uber to go home and the cab number was 7418. When we came outside, we found a car with the number 7419 waiting there and it was just a random private car that happened to have that number....what were the odds of that happening! Let's see, it would be 1/10000 (just read that P(B/A) = P(B) if events A and B are independent).
(2) During my morning walk today (which by itself is a low probability event), I came across this dog I see everyday and thought it was high time to name it. For some reason, I thought of the name Bonzo for it which surprised me that time too since it was not the kind of name I think of for dogs and didn't have any recent reference from where it could have popped up. Then later in office, when I opened the timepass walla paper to read today's Calvin & Hobbes, guess what I found (look at the last panel):
So cool, isn't it! :D
UPDATE: Today also I had two very low probability events happening around me! So I now have a new Douglas Adams-like scientific theory that there are sometimes ripples in the space-time 'fabric' which make it tilt in the favour of low probability events and so at such times, you see many low probability events happening ;)
Quite an interesting read !
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