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 @laurenshof How am I supposed to use that calculation to work out how many sisters I have? Part of the calculation requires that I already know the answer. Can't see anything else wrong with it :blobcatthink: @markgg42 @laurenshof no no, you've misunderstood the math -- to find how many sisters you have, you have someone else do the math with the number of brothers / sisters *they* have. Due to statistical sibling entanglement this should yield the correct number of your own sisters (within an acceptable margin of error) @FeralRobots @markgg42 @laurenshof No, the person who asked this question likely had between 679.8 and 680.2 sisters. The math checks out (assuming the other person did in fact have 5 courses, the answer is vague on that, which is a little disappointing) @mvu @markgg42 @laurenshof @FeralRobots @markgg42 @laurenshof but you would theoretically ask someone *else* about about their sibling situation to get your numbers. For example, of you asked *me* (someone with 0 sisters, -1.49 brothers, and 5 courses) you will find that the algorithm gives the expected result! @mvu @markgg42 @laurenshof @laurenshof that makes a lot of sense ... so how many sisters do I actually have. I always thought it was zero, but maybe I wasn't calculating it right. @discgolf @laurenshof  @laurenshof my favourite is the one that instructs people who want to clean their washing machines, to fill their laundryroom with homemade chlorine gas  @elilla @laurenshof After that they can use non-toxic glue in their tomato sauce so the cheese doesn't slide off their pizza* 👌 (another perfectly reasonable and safe tip by Reddot/Google-AI) *It's wild to me that this is a problem people have ...  @elilla @laurenshof someone is gonna die for this, and news won't talk about it like they do for things usually (screaming about a non issue) (it is in this case a true issue)     @laurenshof now starts the real challenge: what was the original source of this … shall we be kind and call it “calculation”? My bets are maybe a mangled combination of this doc (includes “brothers”, “sisters” and calculations written out including numbers): https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED036430.pdf Maybe in combination with something like: https://slideplayer.com/slide/9871551/ But if someone finds a word-for-word copied source, that would be even more awesome. @avuko @laurenshof I found the source: its pretty much verbatim copied from this Math Stackexchange question https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1455902/determining-how-many-sibling-a-person-has It look like some sort of puzzle maybe? Regardless, Google completely ignores any context and treats anything remotely similar to the use question as a perfect source of truth. Insane!  @laurenshof Funny and sad. BTW how are people getting these answers? By just searching at google dot com? When I do that, I don't see any result labeled "AI Overview" in the All tab. Maybe a good thing, but I'm just curious.  |
@laurenshof amazing