THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 3)

Here is the list of movies that flopped the most at the box-office.

3 Likes

Would bigger flop be when the movie lost more money overall or if it lost more money in relation to how much was put in?

4 Likes

the legend 27, i guess? /j

3 Likes

Then we’d have the mythical 28, right?

2 Likes

That the capetiler

6 Likes

You mean the larval form of a flutter-by?

4 Likes

Correct!

4 Likes

Will the adult form then be when all stages get finished?

3 Likes

What are the chances a QR code has a face? (It is expired, by the way, so it does not work).
Do you see someone looking at you?

2 Likes

Is the face this thing in the center?

2 Likes

More like toward the bottom center/rightish.

2 Likes

Oh you mean the thing with two 3x3 eyes?

2 Likes

For any given 7x7 random binary pixels, the odds it’s that exact pattern you got is 2^49 or 1 in about 500 trillion.
However, all qr codes have the 5x5 pixel box on right bottom corner that makes up the right eye.
So the odds the 3x3 pixels next to it make a ring is 2^9, 1 in 512, given that you accept a single off pixel in the corner, there are 5 in 512 odds it looks like an eye.

For the mouth, first the black below the eye adds another 1 in 8, for 5 in 4,096. About 0.12%.

For the 2x7 pixels that make up the mouth, the exact you got is 2^14, however it clearly does not need to be perfect, as it isn’t in the image. The odds that one of them is a 7 pixel line is

1-(\frac{2^7-1}{2^7} \;)^2

or about 1.5%. This equation in plain language, is the odds you don’t succeed, to the power of how many times you roll for it, to get the chance you are not successful; the subtraction gives the reverse odds that you are.
If you don’t consider the furthest sides of the line, your odds increase to

1-(\frac{2^5-1}{2^5} \;)^2

or about 3.1%.

So 0.12% times 3.1%, is 0.0037 percent.
Which 1 in about 26,420.
Which is rare, but there are a lot of QR codes.

BTW: how do you add the equation thingies in discourse?
Edit: Yes, the html formatted one.
Edit: NVM got it.

4 Likes

Can’t you just use the β€œ+ =” key on the keyboard? Or are you talking about something like a html formatted equation thing?

3 Likes

Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory uncover hidden star maps from Hipparchus using X-rays.

3 Likes

Is this a similar technique to the one used to see β€œsketches” beneath some paintings?

2 Likes

A citizen scientist found an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a K-star within Kepler’s data.

3 Likes

Yeah we have heard about those a bunch of times.

1 Like

There could be more habitable zone planets still within Kepler’s data waiting to be combed out.

2 Likes

I think there is still going to be a very good while before we discover a good terra like planet as a candidate for alien life or colonization

1 Like