Weird Realizations

[Lyinginbedmon]

No, computer viruses got me thinking about organic viruses, which then got me to wondering where in biological evolution viruses would pop up and if their non-living "data" state could be considered evidencial of a useful data pre-life existence.

[kodra]

Computer viruses rarely upgrade themselves (never to my knowledge).

Conficker did. (Oh how I hate Conficker)

[Stinkychops]

No, computer viruses got me thinking about organic viruses, which then got me to wondering where in biological evolution viruses would pop up and if their non-living "data" state could be considered evidencial of a useful data pre-life existence.

I'm not sure what you are saying, but considering viruses replicate parasitically (which is why they aren't classified as life, to my knowledge) I don't think they could exist for more than one generation without organisms to infect.

Conficker isn't updating itself, its creators are believed to be upgrading it. Or at least that's my knowledge.

[Metcarfre]

If you want something that'll really bake your noodle, you should check out ribozymes and the RNA world hypothesis.

[SecretsOfMoon]

Computer viruses rarely upgrade themselves (never to my knowledge).

Conficker did. (Oh how I hate Conficker)

Oh c'mon now, Conficker was awesome, almost as good as Stuxnet! Altough Stxnet wasn't exactly a sophisticated piece of software, I think it heralds a new phase in contemporary warfare and for that alone, it's the shit, as it were. *end tangent*

[JesterJ.]

I miss playing DotA with Jester, Bill, Morgan, Ben and Adam

Lavos, we play HoN. Me, Bill, Ben, and sometimes Morgan. Get on it bruh.

I HAVE HON YOU FAGGOTS
WHERE ARE YOU GUYS QQ

dafuck, really? wanna play tonight? are you not Vagoo anymore?

[Lyinginbedmon]

I was born in June of 1990, in the ending days of the 20th Century, therefore I am, if you will, a 20th Century Boy.

I am a product of the what may well be described as the worst century in human history, as well as one of the greatest. Being born in the final years of that confused century, I can be considered then to be an example of good things resulting from villainous actions.

My mother is the only daughter of a missing and unknown father and a Northern Island expat, who is herself miraculous in never having known or heard of the Irish Troubles until after her expatriation to England.
My father is the only son of a metallurgist and a gardener born in a palace that was used as a hospital during World War II.

My parents grew out of the aftermath of World War II, itself a product of the aftermath of World War I (The Great War, as it was once known), and began their time in the sixties, a time of spiritual upheaval and rediscovery, followed by the seventies, a time of free thinking and cultural renewal, and then by the eighties, a time of new ideas and new movements around the world.

I am a 90s child, the era where data began to see substantial importance, and the beginning of a truly connected world community, in which I spent much of those final years of the 20th Century.

The 20th Century it seems, represents far more than just a chapter in a history book. I am a 20th Century Boy, and it is my turn to witness a changing and improving age.

[OMGItsSarah]

In less than 24 hours, I'm getting on a plane to England.

[AmazingPjotrMan]

Apparently I'm not from the hood.

[TheRocket]

I was born in June of 1990, in the ending days of the 20th Century, therefore I am, if you will, a 20th Century Boy.

I am a product of the what may well be described as the worst century in human history, as well as one of the greatest. Being born in the final years of that confused century, I can be considered then to be an example of good things resulting from villainous actions.

My mother is the only daughter of a missing and unknown father and a Northern Island expat, who is herself miraculous in never having known or heard of the Irish Troubles until after her expatriation to England.
My father is the only son of a metallurgist and a gardener born in a palace that was used as a hospital during World War II.

My parents grew out of the aftermath of World War II, itself a product of the aftermath of World War I (The Great War, as it was once known), and began their time in the sixties, a time of spiritual upheaval and rediscovery, followed by the seventies, a time of free thinking and cultural renewal, and then by the eighties, a time of new ideas and new movements around the world.

I am a 90s child, the era where data began to see substantial importance, and the beginning of a truly connected world community, in which I spent much of those final years of the 20th Century.

The 20th Century it seems, represents far more than just a chapter in a history book. I am a 20th Century Boy, and it is my turn to witness a changing and improving age.

Or are you part of an age where everyone is a complacent self entitled twit in need of immediate stimulation by their smart phones and laptops?

[Lyinginbedmon]

"everyone" may be a bit of a strong term when you're talking generations of civilisation.

[EikoandMog]

Wow, lyinginbedmon and myself are born in the same month. Does that count?

[Lyinginbedmon]

Given that there's only 12 months? Not particularly strange, no.

Same month and same year would be interesting, even moreso if it were same exact date, but even statistically that's not very unlikely. After all, we're all born to the same calendar these days, and there's 7 billion of us across 365.25 days and several years.

Actually, given that the LRR crowd is largely drawn from the same age demographic, that D/M/Y correlation between members is probably a lot higher than it might be amongst people just walking down the street.

[theDreamer]

In any given high school classroom, supposedly, a high schooler can find, in theory, one person who shares their birth month.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Given that there's 12 months and an average classroom is between 20 to 30 people...yeah, that makes sense.

[theDreamer]

Yeah.

I never once had class with anyone else born in July.

EDIT: you're assuming there is an even spread between birth months.

That's not even close to true.

EDIT2: So, looking at stats can, for ALL OF CANADA, July has 8.9% of live births.

Which puts it at the highest birth month in Canada.

In Ontario, it's at 8.8%, which is beaten only by September, at 8.9%.

...Seriously what the crap.

EDIT3: burrowing down reveals that, in 1992, it tied for second most popular,, at 8.8% in Canada, with March and April, first going to May at 9.1%.

Ontario is the same, only March drops to 8.7%.

CONTINUED WHAT THE CRAP.

[Master Gunner]

Apparently, Ontario throws some really awesome New Year's parties.

Well, you have to have something, I guess.

[Lyinginbedmon]

0.1% would seem to be standard deviation.

[Metcarfre]

In any given high school classroom, supposedly, a high schooler can find, in theory, one person who shares their birth month.

In any group greater than 30 there's at least a 50% chance two people share a birthday. I remember having to write a (terrible) program that demonstrated this once.

[theDreamer]

0.1% would seem to be standard deviation.

The range seems to be 7.7% to 9.1%

[Master Gunner]

Code: Select all

import java.util.Random;

public class demoProg {
     public static void main (String[] args) {
          Random rand = new Random();
          for (int i = 0; i <30; i++;) {
               println(rand.nextInt(366));
          }
     }
}

Run that a few dozen times, and you should see the pattern.

[theDreamer]

...That's still ignoring the bias, which isn't a mathematical one, but a sociological one.

[Master Gunner]

Which increases the odds that any two people, chosen at random, will share the same birthday.

[EikoandMog]

Oh, I actually meant same year as well lyinginbedmon.

[thatlaurachick]

I already have almost double the number of friends on G+ as FB. But it's almost exclusively Runners and Crew. Maybe FB got it wrong. Many people talk about how their OTI friends aren't anything like their IRL friends. Maybe basing a virtual network on IRL networking wasn't the right way to go about it. Instead, let people really segment their friends, because that's reality.

Well, now if I ever get any real friends they can go in their own circle.