{"id":170,"date":"2007-11-13T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2007\/11\/13\/what-are-the-chances\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:29:19","slug":"what-are-the-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2007\/11\/13\/what-are-the-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the chances?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night we were eating dinner and talking about Probability. BN was explaining something to me about Random Graphs and I was bringing up all kinds of complications you&#8217;d run into in trying to describe the Internet as an example of this whole probability-related Graph thing. (Cause the Internet is not a simple net, now, is it?)<\/p>\n<p>I was talking animatedly, while opening a new bottle of multivitamins. I managed to peel off the <em>sealed for your protection<\/em> thingy and dropped a pill out onto my placemat. Still talking, I reached for my bottle of calcium supplements and, without looking, tapped one into my hand then dropped it onto the table. BN&#8217;s eyes widened and he pointed at the spot. What I&#8217;m about to show you is NOT a posed photo. This happened by purely random chance (maybe not totally purely, we&#8217;d have to ask the probabilists): Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Wow!\" title=\"Wow!\" src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/ImageUploads\/ProbabilityPills.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night we were eating dinner and talking about Probability. BN was explaining something to me about Random Graphs <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}