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That sounds like your typical slashdot comment. By the law of large numbers, one of them is bound to become infamous.
by coherentpony 10y ago
That sounds like your typical slashdot comment. By the law of large numbers, one of them is bound to become infamous.
- mcphage 10y agoThat comment was from CmdrTaco, the guy who ran Slashdot back then. So more significant than some internet rando.
- hyperbovine 10y agoThe law of large numbers establishes convergence (in probability or almost surely, depending on which version you choose) of the sample average to the population mean. This implies what you are saying but the simpler argument is just that if each /. comment has probability p > 0 of becoming infamous, then the probability of more at least one of n comments becoming infamous is 1 - (1 - p)^n -> 1.