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When will my work be noteworthy? Noteworthy... Oh honey please, spare me the bull ****
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May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 at 3:34 PM UTC
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When will my work be noteworthy? Noteworthy... Oh honey please, spare me the bull ****
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why the occurrence of something highly improbable should be inherently noteworthy                              Here is a way to produce                          Here is a way to produce an outcome                                                  a poem almost certainly                                          almost certainly never seen before in                                   never seen before in human history                                             human history and never to be repeated:                          and never to be repeated: Shuffle a deck of cards.                             Shuffle an alphabet. The resulting deck, assuming                  The resulting deck of letters the cards are shuffled correctly,        if the letters are shuffled correctly should only occur on average                should only occur on average every 52 *51 *50 *... 21 shuffles,       every 26 *25 *24 *... 21 shuffles, because this is the number                        because this is the number of possible permutations of                       of possible permutations 52 cards, all equally likely.                         26 letters, all equally likely.  This number is incomprehensibly large, on the order of 1068 or 534 using  letters                                100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,     000,000,000,000, (or half that with an alphabet)                                                 Every person on earth could                                        write a gibberish poem once every nanosecond                     for the expected lifetime of the universe and not even put                                                       a dent in that number.                                Is this why then is there not a GOOD poem written                                           every time letters are shuffled about                                              the astronomically unlikely event                                                          that just took place? Because letters are not numbers, the subset of sequenced associations called words  (in the English language) is about a mere                                                   ~ 220,000~                     But, each year, an estimated 800 to 1,000 new words                                     are added to the English language That is still a heck of a lot of possible combinations and is the reason                                          why the occurrence of something should be inherently noteworthy at all. So writing a new combination of words is still pretty difficult, and writing an intelligible and intelligent mind moving combination is a rare thing indeed. Should you happen to write a poem and get even a single read, that is a pretty miraculous thing because the subset of the billions of English reading persons on Earth who also read poetry habitutualy read is the square root of pi, or 1.7724537398758821888. which ain’t a lot of people. So, if you wrote a really good poem today and a couple of people read it, liked it, that highly improbable event is highly improbable, about the same chance that someone else exists with your exact DNA (excluding any identical twin) is a reallly low number so, consider yourself really, really special.  I do.
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Mar 25, 2019
Mar 25, 2019 at 8:12 AM UTC
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why the occurrence of something highly improbable should be inherently noteworthy
why the occurrence of something highly improbable should be inherently noteworthy                              Here is a way to produce                          Here is a way to produce an outcome                                                  a poem almost certainly                                          almost certainly never seen before in                                   never seen before in human history                                             human history and never to be repeated:                          and never to be repeated: Shuffle a deck of cards.                             Shuffle an alphabet. The resulting deck, assuming                  The resulting deck of letters the cards are shuffled correctly,        if the letters are shuffled correctly should only occur on average                should only occur on average every 52 *51 *50 *... 21 shuffles,       every 26 *25 *24 *... 21 shuffles, because this is the number                        because this is the number of possible permutations of                       of possible permutations 52 cards, all equally likely.                         26 letters, all equally likely.  This number is incomprehensibly large, on the order of 1068 or 534 using  letters                                100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,     000,000,000,000, (or half that with an alphabet)                                                 Every person on earth could                                        write a gibberish poem once every nanosecond                     for the expected lifetime of the universe and not even put                                                       a dent in that number.                                Is this why then is there not a GOOD poem written                                           every time letters are shuffled about                                              the astronomically unlikely event                                                          that just took place? Because letters are not numbers, the subset of sequenced associations called words  (in the English language) is about a mere                                                   ~ 220,000~                     But, each year, an estimated 800 to 1,000 new words                                     are added to the English language That is still a heck of a lot of possible combinations and is the reason                                          why the occurrence of something should be inherently noteworthy at all. So writing a new combination of words is still pretty difficult, and writing an intelligible and intelligent mind moving combination is a rare thing indeed. Should you happen to write a poem and get even a single read, that is a pretty miraculous thing because the subset of the billions of English reading persons on Earth who also read poetry habitutualy read is the square root of pi, or 1.7724537398758821888. which ain’t a lot of people. So, if you wrote a really good poem today and a couple of people read it, liked it, that highly improbable event is highly improbable, about the same chance that someone else exists with your exact DNA (excluding any identical twin) is a reallly low number so, consider yourself really, really special.  I do.
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