has anyone else seen this: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html a very cool ESP experiment. can you work out how it does it? (I'm kinda chuffed with myself after only taking aminute or two to work it out) -- -- Hereward Cooper <coops <at> zadok.org.uk>
Hereward Cooper <coops <at> zadok.org.uk> writes: > has anyone else seen this: > > http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html > > a very cool ESP experiment. > > can you work out how it does it? (I'm kinda chuffed with myself after > only taking aminute or two to work it out) The second webpage (with the card removed) has none of the five cards from the first page. The four cards look similar, but they are all different. Nice trick, but a bit cheap. :) Lukas -- -- This is not a signature
Hereward Cooper wrote: > has anyone else seen this: > > http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html > > a very cool ESP experiment. > > can you work out how it does it? (I'm kinda chuffed with myself after > only taking aminute or two to work it out) > > Yes, I can tell you. The 5 cards on the second page are completly others than the cards before. That means, he erases all six and gives you 5 randomly chosen. And the chance that your card is not among these five cards is 98 %. Best regards, Gerhard -- -- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." - Linus Gerhard Olejniczak Tel: +49-9128-12090 Mozartstr.1 E-Mail: gerhard.olejniczak <at> odn.de D-90592 Schwarzenbruck Fax: +49-911-9342807527
* Hereward Cooper | can you work out how it does it? (I'm kinda chuffed with myself after | only taking aminute or two to work it out) trivial. It removes all the cards and replaces them with other cards, preserving color (but not suit) and rank. -- -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-
> has anyone else seen this: > > http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html > > a very cool ESP experiment. > > can you work out how it does it? (I'm kinda chuffed with myself after > only taking aminute or two to work it out) > > > -- > Hereward Cooper <coops <at> zadok.org.uk> Aye, I saw that in the guardian too. Worked it out in a minute or two as well :) The nonsense he has in his html source is the funny thing: <!-- Java overdrive, aleph/beta scramble. Insertion sequence, via ESP, commit -->
Hello, On 01 Dec 2002 14:12:41 +0000, Hereward Cooper <coops <at> zadok.org.uk> wrote: > has anyone else seen this: > > http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html > > a very cool ESP experiment. > > can you work out how it does it? (I'm kinda chuffed with myself after > only taking aminute or two to work it out) and read the explanations, that is THE hammer :)))) Ph.D.'s and engineers trusting all that bullshit!!!! and the comments are not too censed -- I saw at least two comments tipping at the correct answer :). -- -- Best regards, Aigars Mahinovs mailto:aigarius <at> debian.org #--------------------------------------------------------------# | .''`. | | : :' : Debian GNU/Linux & LAKA | | `. `' http://www.debian.org http://www.laka.lv | | `- | #--------------------------------------------------------------#(Continue reading)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/103 Who woulda thunk it? -- -- Curse my natural showmanship!
* Brian Nelson | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/103 | | Who woulda thunk it? to clean and uninfected by the Empire remain, Emacs you use must. -- -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-
I thought part of the "cleaning" would be to remove some of the bloat. So much for emacs. Thus spake Tollef Fog Heen (tollef <at> add.no): > To: debian-curiosa <at> lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: MS employees use vim? > From: Tollef Fog Heen <tollef <at> add.no> > Date: 02 Dec 2002 09:02:19 +0100 > X-Mailing-List: <debian-curiosa <at> lists.debian.org> archive/latest/1298 > > * Brian Nelson > > | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/103 > | > | Who woulda thunk it? > > to clean and uninfected by the Empire remain, Emacs you use must. > > -- > Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. > UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : > `. `' > `- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-curiosa-request <at> lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster <at> lists.debian.org(Continue reading)
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:52:12AM -0500, Robert L. Harris said: > > I thought part of the "cleaning" would be to remove some of the bloat. > So much for emacs. Removing the bloat is easy: apt-get --purge remove emacs -- -- Shawn McMahon | AIM work: spmcmahonfedex | If you outlaw ebola wands, only AIM home: smcmahoneiv | outlaws will have ebola wands.
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