Interesting Links for 09-01-2024

[andrewducker]

1. What really has a 1 in a million chance?

(tags:statistics )

2. Recollections of the Holodomor (when Russia starved 4 million Ukranians to death)

(tags:genocide food ukraine russia )

3. Visualising 1 million (If you've always wanted to see a million circles in one image, this is your big moment.)

(tags:numbers )

4. "Are you having fun, son?" - a rambling post about extracting happiness from the world

(tags:happiness )

Comments

[simont]

#1: I'm terribly disappointed not to see a rigorous analysis of the chance of a man with soot on his face, his tongue sticking out, standing on one leg and singing The Hedgehog Song ever hitting a dragon's voonerables with an arrow!

[andrewducker]

1 in 999,987, I believe.

(And I'm looking forward to reaching that point in my Discworld re-read, in 5 books time)