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Re: wildly improbable events     

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Author: Ken S. Tucker
Date: Aug 24, 2008 10:58

... most of those failure modes [1] are wildly improbable, like one chance in a billion of ever happening. 1e9 * 1e-9 = 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause, one... that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens all ... never occurred again to my knowledge. The event wasn't as much complex as it ...
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Author: John Larkin
Date: Aug 24, 2008 08:57

...of those failure modes [1] are wildly improbable, like one chance in a ... = 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause... that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens... track them down. Ahh, but "improbable" implies you understand the total system... probabilities! True. What I call "improbable" is an output that was ...
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Author: Bob Masta
Date: Aug 24, 2008 05:19

...= 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause... that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens... track them down. Ahh, but "improbable" implies you understand the total system...assumption that the probability of an event can be found from combinatorial ...a billion atoms could align themselves, "wildly improbable" needs to be raised to...
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Author: Robert Baer
Date: Aug 24, 2008 01:02

... this. Suppose most of those failure modes [1] are wildly improbable, like one chance in a billion of ever happening. 1e9 * 1e-9 = 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause, one would be ... bizarre." It was probable that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens all the time in our...
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Author: John Larkin
Date: Aug 23, 2008 22:56

...of those failure modes [1] are wildly improbable, like one chance in a ...billion of ever happening. 1e9 * 1e-9 = 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause, ... that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens all... inorganic muck. I'll keep reading. It's not just bad improbable events that keep popping up; good ...
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Author: Immortalist
Date: Aug 23, 2008 22:14

...like this. Suppose most of those failure modes [1] are wildly improbable, like one chance in a billion of ever happening. 1e9 * 1e-9 = 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause, one would be ... bizarre." It was probable that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens all the time in our...
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Author: Bill Ward
Date: Aug 23, 2008 15:05

... most of those failure modes [1] are wildly improbable, like one chance in a billion of ever happening. 1e9 * 1e-9 = 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause, one... probable that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens all ... never occurred again to my knowledge. The event wasn't as much complex as it ...
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Author: Michael A. Terrell
Date: Aug 23, 2008 14:00

... this. Suppose most of those failure modes [1] are wildly improbable, like one chance in a billion of ever happening. 1e9 * 1e-9 = 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause, one would be ... bizarre." It was probable that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens all the time in our...
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wildly improbable events     

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Author: John Larkin
Date: Aug 23, 2008 13:13

... and interacting at frequencies like this. Suppose most of those failure modes [1] are wildly improbable, like one chance in a billion of ever happening. 1e9 * 1e-9 = 1 The final solution was wildly improbable. If suggested as a cause, one would be...bizarre." It was probable that the actual problem *was* wildly improbable. This sort of thing happens all the time...
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Author: Rod Speed
Date: Aug 24, 2008 20:43

... all sorts of formal policys with the cost of formalising those etc. A very small town's police force doesnt need to have all that sort of shit and just borrows the forensic services in the rare event they need to bother with those etc. Seems to me a lot of the same things happen with small companies vs. big companies... Yes, and you get a similar effect, the stuff flogged by the ...
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