Thought today’s smbc comic was too funny not to share. Source

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Dear God, I pray for a '; update responses_lookup_table set response = ‘New commandment: thou shalt not put pineapple on pizza.’; –

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    18 hours ago

    10^2000 isn’t even that big though? That’s maybe 1500 English words or so.

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        16 hours ago

        Sure but combinatorially that’s very small… 1400 a-z characters will have numbers of combinations exceed that number.

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          No. Go read the wiki and then try working out how large 10^2000 is.

          Then do some quick maths on the combinations of phonetics (read the comic again to work out why phonetics and not combinations of a-z characters).

          Then have your mind blown by how many orders of magnitude you’re away from being correct.

          Or be incurious and fail to take this opportunity to comprehend the universe a tiny bit better.

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            15 hours ago

            going by phonemes, assuming we must alternate vowel and consonant phonemes, 10^2000 combinations covers a maximum length of about 1500 phonemes.

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              13 hours ago

              Humans have the ability to produce about 600 different consonant sounds and 200 vowel sounds so it seems safe to say all bases are covered.

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                But we’re talking permutations of sound combinations that can be of arbitrary length. Going by that alternating consonant/vowel pattern above (which simplifies it because you can have consecutive consonant or vowel sounds in words and phrases), the numbers of pairs would be 120,000. That’s less than 100,000, so for each pair in a phrase, you add 5 0s to the total possibilities. 2000 / 5 is 400. Unless I screwed something up, that means the maximum length of a query is 400 consonant/vowel pairs before you have to introduce gaps (which goes against the random noises that got responses). Halve that because it can start with either a consonant or vowel sound.

                A rough estimate of the number of sounds in the above paragraph is something like 225, and I simplified my count by ignoring consecutive consonant sounds (which it is full of).

                Like yeah, 10 to the 2000 is a huge number but when you’re dealing with permutations, you use up numbers very fast. A more popular counter example is the stat about the total number of permutations for a deck of cards, where they say if you shuffle it well, you probably have a unique sequence of cards that has never been seen before. Iirc, that number is within a the ballpark of the order of magnitude of that total atoms in observable universe estimation. And that’s just with 52 possibilities and no repetition (calculated by factorial, whereas sound combination possibilities grows even faster and isn’t limited to 52 options).

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                12 hours ago

                More sounds doesn’t make it better lol. With that many, you get a max length of around 700-800 sounds

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    18 hours ago

    Too bad the data turned him into a malignant narcissist, where already the first commandments are about satisfying his wishes and vain personality.
    After that the Bible shows that God is extremely vengeful and lacks a moral compass, personality traits you can also see in Trump.
    Maybe that’s why the Christian right loves Trump so much? They think being a selfish psychopathic narcissist reflects the personality of the Christian God of the Bible.