Friday, April 25, 2008

MultiTasking

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
ana mesh ghayzny gher en feeh 3 windows le firefox mafto7een raghm en el window ely 2odamna malyna tabs kteer
el mohm b2a enty betftkry enty fat7a eih aslan ? wla momkn teft7y nafs el page aktar men mara ? 3shan ana 3arf en ur memory be 3afya shewya :P

Anonymous said...

a true multitasker :)

Anonymous said...

edah you are an xkcd fan?

*thumbs up*

Gihan said...

zekry: well..i do forget where exactly was i when i work this way..but I found myself not able to work any other way though!

xero: It runs in the family, both my procrastinating and my multitasking skills :D

mahdeto:
my hobby: opening 3 tabs of xkcd and pressing the random button and calculating the probability of having the same comic appearing at the same time :)

Anonymous said...

no kidding !!

its not that tough though !

till today there is 415 strips published

you can model it as throwing 3 dices with 415 face each and hoping they all land on the same face, that is of course if their random function satisfies the 3 assumptions of bernolli's trials (only 2 outcomes possible/trials are independent/if outcome A has prob. p then outcome B must have prob. 1-p) which i think is the case here - i ran a script that sampled the redirects of their random page and it was around 207 with the same SD - so i think their random function does satisfy the 3 conditions


the calculation itself is simply:
(1/415)*(1/415)*(1/415)=
1.3991224004743024937607885448812e-8

if you were hoping for the same strip from 3 tabs without any help from your browser's cache and you actually got it ! then you are one lucky person !!! (or they have a serious random generation glitch that didn't show up with concurrent fast hits)

Anonymous said...

that would be one long alt text if you ever think about publishing it :P

Gihan said...

Thanks Mahdeto,

mesh 3arfa wallahy kont ha3mel eh men 3'eer el equation deh..:)

someone should visualize it and send it as a comic..or why would they take all the credit?! We should do ourselves a comic!

w nessameeha krq! :)

I mean they are just stick figures..how possibly hard could it be (please do not actually go through the drama of calculating the possibility of its "hardness")

Anonymous said...

edah makontesh fakrek hatetday2ee !
and krq .. yaaaaaaaaaaah (kinetic recursive quality?:p)

ok no more stat. comments!