It started about language and the it got existential
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They really upped their game in the last few videos.
This one in particular just blew my mind. When he began to go on to how literally everything is in the Zipf function, It was almost too much.
[QUOTE=aurum481;48690058]It started about language and the it got existential
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That's what every Vsauce video feels like.
Glad I got to leave with the patented "Vsause Existential Crisis"
Wait, would taking account of Zipf's law make learning a new language easier?
But would you then only really grasp 20% of them initially?
Is Zipf's law exponential?
Holy shit the initial three lines of that thought process gradually got shorter and shorter what the fuck is the universe.
EVERYTHING IS A FUCKING LIE WE'RE ALL JUST GRAPHS IN A MACHINE
So we are all running the latest version of Universe OS.
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;48690953]Wait, would taking account of Zipf's law make learning a new language easier?
But would you then only really grasp 20% of them initially?
Is Zipf's law exponential?
Holy shit the initial three lines of that thought process gradually got shorter and shorter what the fuck is the universe.
EVERYTHING IS A FUCKING LIE WE'RE ALL JUST GRAPHS IN A MACHINE[/QUOTE]
Yep, you're exactly correct. I'm a big fan of Tim Ferriss who has basically made a career out of distilling expertise in virtually any area down to that 20% which is most effective.
I'm glad he mentioned preferential attachment models, I am fiddling with them for my PhD project and they produce some really beautiful structures.
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Is Zipf's law exponential?
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No, if we take a continuous, unbounded analogue of the Zipf distribution (ie, the Pareto distribution) we'll see that it has heavier tails than the exponential distribution.
This has important implications: basically rare shit happens more often.
OP's username has "The" in it. Was this intentional
[QUOTE=Wunce;48693396]I'm glad he mentioned preferential attachment models, I am fiddling with them for my PhD project and they produce some really beautiful structures.
No, if we take a continuous, unbounded analogue of the Zipf distribution (ie, the Pareto distribution) we'll see that it has heavier tails than the exponential distribution.
This has important implications: basically rare shit happens more often.[/QUOTE]
Are you saying that rare occurrences are more likely to happen once than expected occurrences are more likely to happen many times?
Does this explain 'Truth is stranger than fiction'?
Alrighty. Time to look at everything a little bit differently again!
Zipferently!
[QUOTE=FlandersNed;48693488]Are you saying that rare occurrences are more likely to happen once than expected occurrences are more likely to happen many times?
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Not quite - my statement was an over simplification because the actual stuff is extremely technical.
I think the best way to describe it is this: given that something [i] sufficiently rare[/i] has occurred, then it could be anything with roughly equal probability. As an example, say we know that a natural disaster has happened and cost over $1b in damage. The exact cost could be $2b or $200b, both occur with roughly the same probability. With an exponential distribution in the same example, $2b would be orders of magnitude more likely to occur than $200b.
They could have said "You're living in a computer simulation" at literally any point and I'd have just agreed with it. This is nuts.
20% of fpers make 80% of the posts :science101:
Let's make it into the search results: Quizzaciously
[QUOTE=orgornot;48694481]Let's make it into the search results: Quizzaciously[/QUOTE]
Shame there are already thousands of results for the word now
[QUOTE=KorJax;48694550]Shame there are already thousands of results for the word now[/QUOTE]
It's literally people just trying to get on to google
and people adding [QUIZZACIOUSLY] to their youtube videos for views.
this is hilarious
What if quizzaciously isn't even a word and it was was just vsauce trying to make it popular so that it WOULD be a word?
[QUOTE=ThatSwordGuy;48695989]What if quizzaciously isn't even a word and it was was just vsauce trying to make it popular so that it WOULD be a word?[/QUOTE]
yeah vsauce edits for the oxford english dictionary, and he also wrote elder speak.
[QUOTE=ThatSwordGuy;48695989]What if quizzaciously isn't even a word and it was was just vsauce trying to make it popular so that it WOULD be a word?[/QUOTE]
if nobody ever used it, was it really a word?
Vocal chord parasites
wow, I can't even wrap my mind around anything he's saying otherwise my mind would be blown
[QUOTE=Agoat;48693872]They could have said "You're living in a computer simulation" at literally any point and I'd have just agreed with it. This is nuts.[/QUOTE]
Exactly what I was thinking. WE'RE IN A SIMULATION. WAKE UP SHEEPLE. LET ME OUT
[video=youtube;Ns7fNPiNiNc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns7fNPiNiNc[/video]
Should've just played this over the entire video. I probably wouldn't have felt less like a hologram anyway.
[QUOTE=redback3;48710158][video=youtube;Ns7fNPiNiNc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns7fNPiNiNc[/video]
Should've just played this over the entire video. I probably wouldn't have felt less like a hologram anyway.[/QUOTE]
"Case closed. And as always, thanks for wwwwwwait a minute..."
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEC_5vM79wU[/media]
[QUOTE=Rammaster;48707265]Exactly what I was thinking. WE'RE IN A SIMULATION. WAKE UP SHEEPLE. LET ME OUT[/QUOTE]
I've already accepted I'm in a simulation. The question is, is this a "single-player" or "multi-player" simulation :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=galimatias;48694341]20% of fpers make 80% of the posts :science101:[/QUOTE]
when you think about it, fucking yeah dude
i think i need some time to think
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