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I swear Hacker/Innocuous News is following the programming languages class I'm currently taking. In the last week we've gone over tail recursion and the Markov
by Mongoose 17y ago
I swear Hacker/Innocuous News is following the programming languages class I'm currently taking. In the last week we've gone over tail recursion and the Markov model and in the last 12 hours they've both made appearances on the front page.
- jules 17y agoWhat's the probability that HN does not cover two topics of some class of some student in one week? < 1%.
- ars 17y agoWhen you get to the statistics class you'll realize it's just that you notice something more when you are dealing with it. Those types of stories are there frequently, but you never remarked on them before because you were not thinking about it.
- joshu 17y agoI was once explaining the Baader-Meinhof Phenomoenon to someone and then went to a movie and there was a trailer for a movie about the Baader-Meinhof gang. True story!
- Mongoose 17y agoI'm taking statistics at the moment too, actually. I understand what you're saying. I was simply remarking on the pleasantness of seeing a correlation between my academic material and real-world applications.
- paraschopra 17y agoI guess s/he will realize this not in Statistics class, but in Psychology class. Human brain is amazingly equipped to find patterns, even if there exists none.