I only very recently picked up chess and spend most of my time playing against the computer. lichess's computer plays really, really weird at low levels, not human-like at all. Chess.com's computer plays a bit more human-like, at least up to 1100, which is the computer level I'm currently playing against, but still not like a real human.
I would compare it as:
lichess - best move, best move, best move, completely random move that does absolutely nothing
chess.com - best move, good move, best move, blunder that seems patronizing given previous moves
I've only played a handful of games against real people online, but those games weren't anything like either lichess or chess.com's computer players.
Same here. I actually still had an unopened can and a stack of labels I had peeled off bottles when I moved out of my parents' house and ended up chucking them all in the trash. I kind of wish I still had the can to just stick on a shelf, the cans were pretty cool looking.
if .5 is completely random, what does it mean that I got it down to 0.4781666666666667? I may have gotten it lower than that, but got tired of taking screenshots. Eventually I ended up back around .53
It means you were able to fake the algorithm out. Consider a very simple algorithm that guesses based on your previous two characters:
df d
dd d
fd f
ff f
This is presumably much simpler than what the page is doing, but will nonetheless work pretty well on humans by looking for alternations and long runs.
This algorithm is trivially defeated (chance of guessing 0) by the string
ffddffddffdd
Since that holds a pattern just long enough to get the algorithm to guess based on it and then switches.
For a little while, either intentionally or not, you must have been doing a more sophisticated version of this.
With perfect knowledge, it should be possible to get it down to 0.
Any random result series has such "unlikely" occurrences -- you can get 100 6 in a row by throwing dice for example, it's just rare. It's the long term convergence that matters.
I never had an issue with gmail blocking my mail server, but I was getting flagged as spam by AOL every sixish month because my server wasn't sending them enough mail... The company I work for resells an antispam solution with outbound filtering, so I just relay through that now
I bought a Garmin Vivosmart a few months back now, and that's basically what it provides. It vibrates when I get calls, texts and other notifications on my phone, and tracks my steps for the day. It's also pretty thin/light, and is water resistant enough where I can take it swimming.
The Garmin Connect apps are, well... crap really, but I spend almost no time in the apps.
A couple of weeks ago, my boss asked me if I would wear an Apple watch if he bought me one, my answer was basically, yes, because he bought it for me, but I honestly have no real desire to have the Apple watch.
You are right that this is generally true for my cats, unfortunately, one of our cats will periodically go outside the box for other reasons.
For two cats, we have three litter boxes that are cleaned daily, new litter is added every couple of weeks as the level of the litter goes down, and then the boxes are fully emptied and fresh litter added about every three months, and that keeps them mostly happy. Unfortunately, one of the cats will periodically pee outside the box even when the box is perfectly clean, and the reasons are many, and somewhat ambiguous.
Sometimes it's the litter. Either we're trying a new litter, or the manufacturer changes the litter, and the cat doesn't like the new litter for some reason.
Sometimes it's the environment. She's using the litter box and there's a sudden noise for some reason, and then she won't use that box again for a while. Not really a problem when we have three boxes, unless she's been startled while using all of them within a short period of time.
Sometimes she's feeling stressed out. If we rearrange the furniture, the seasons are changing (generally only going into winter does this seem to be a problem,) can't pay as much attention to her for a prolonged period of time, go on vacation, or bring home a new child, she's far more prone to peeing outside the litter box.
She never poops outside the litter box, only ever pees.
We've pretty much just formed a routine to minimize the peeing issues. We keep the litter boxes clean, we make sure we pay enough attention to her, and we try to encourage her to use her litter box at least once a day. If we haven't seen her pee in the litter box for a few days (does not mean she hasn't used it, just hasn't used it in front of us) we start to minimize the available options for her to pee in/on (easier than it sounds, she tries to find substitutes for her litter box, so anything box like, or that she can use to bury, like throw rugs.)
I know personal experience doesn't exactly count as rigorous scientific study, but I do have one light in my house that I literally never turn off in my kitchen. No automatic switch or anything, it burns 24/7/365.
It burns out roughly every 3 years (26,000 hours, pretty damned good, right.) That bulb is subject to various other environmental factors that will reduce it's lifespan (vibration and high heat.)
I've forgotten my point now, but I think it boils down to, a single factor, such as power cycling, isn't likely going to be the only reason a bulb doesn't last as long. A lot of factors play into it, including both environment and manufacturing.
Can definitely confirm this effect. Had a regular bulb in a standing lamp that was pointing upward toward a corner of my home office, that I never turned off. It lasted five years of being on 24/7. The other bulbs used in it (the lamp has three light inserts) have also lasted incredibly long durations (typically 2 to 3 years).
Just this summer, I had a request with a very specific deadline from a client. I was about to go on vacation, and the deadline was for about a week after I was going to be back. I communicated to the client when I would take care of her request (basically the day after I was going to be back in the office,) but didn't mention that I would be out of the office for the next week.
While I was out of the office, she panicked and decided she needed us to complete her request immediately. If she had updated her original ticket, or opened a new one, it would have been sent to whoever was covering my work while I was out of town. She also didn't bother trying to call our office, which would have resulted in the same thing. Instead she decided her best bet was to email me directly, not once, not twice, but three times, and apparently was blind to my out of office replies all three times.
She finally called our office and yelled at one of the other people here because I wasn't replying to her emails. My coworker told her I was out of town, and she insisted she never received my out of office replies. My coworker ended up sending me test emails from both internal and external email addresses to verify my account was sending the out of office replies, which it was.
On the "fun" side, a bunch of 4chaners were intentionally poisoning the results with swear words.