micro.Lone Gunman

Little bits of cool that don't fit anywhere else (or at least not on my main site, Lone Gunman) …and some photos.

[lonegunman]

Perceptions of probability

From a survey of users from /r/samplesize, matching conveniently with the results of the Sherman Kent CIA study (see figure 18).

Data and background from zonination.

Can we make versions of this for all sorts of things, please?

[powells]

Console-free Camping

If you like to play The Last of Us, then try Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

If you like to play Beyond: Two Souls, then try The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

If you like to play Call of Duty: Black Ops (Zombies), then try World War Z by Max Brooks

If you like playing Grand Theft Auto, then try American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

If you like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, then try A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

If you like playing Final Fantasy, try playing Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa

If you like playing Mass Effect, then try Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

If you like playing Alice: Madness Returns, then try Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis

If you like playing Halo, then try Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein

If you like playing Portal, then try House Of Stairs by William Sleator

If you like playing Mario Kart, then try The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia 

If you like playing Dark Souls, then try Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

If you like playing Life Is Strange, then try We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

If you like playing Stardew Valley, then try How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

If you like playing Fable, then try Young Elites by Marie Lu

If you like playing Borderlands, then try Velocity by Chris Wooding

If you like playing Dishonored, then try Airman by Eoin Colfer

If you like playing The Oregon Trail, then try Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

If you like playing the Elder Scrolls series, then try The Naming by Alison Croggon

If you like playing Red Dead Redemption, then try Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

If you like playing Bioshock, then try  Dark Life by Kat Falls

If you like playing Fallout, then try Razorland by Ann Aguirre 

If you like playing Assasin’s Creed, then try The Way of Shadows Night by Brent Weeks

If you like playing Dragonage, then try Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

If you like playing The Legend of Zelda, then try Graceling by Kristin Cashore

If you like playing Until Dawn, then try Ten by Gretchen McNeil

If you like playing Sonic, then try Maximum Ride by James Patterson

If you like playing Overwatch, then try Bluescreen by Dan Wells

If you like playing Uncharted, then try Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

If you like playing Pokemon, then try Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by JK Rowling, and Newt Scamander

If you like playing Mario Party, then try Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

[gamingallnight]

This is amazing!!

[scaliefox]

I have to reblog for two reasons:

1)This is actually a good way to get people into reading.

2)That passive aggressive joke in the last one is pure genius. 

[catchymemes]

[prguitarman]

Okay but can we come back to this one for a moment? 😆

[kniivila]

Dog does not understand

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Subway Map of Roman Roads (Sasha Trubetskoy)

I have a feeling I’m about to go down a rabbit hold of “Subway Maps of ...”

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A cognitive bias cheat sheet, and it’s fully-fledged sibling, via Cognitive bias cheat sheet, simplified

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From the Apple chess engine code 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/IAcvEJtKPN

— Baz Scott (@bazscott) September 3, 2017

Source code

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Maps of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and computer science.

All by Dominic Walliman.

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Data from Wikibooks, maps by /u/Fummy (Europe, World)

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Imperial units

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The Von Neumann Randomness Extractor: How do you construct an unbiased coin from a biased one?

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How do we learn?

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Clever algorithm to find out whether or not 2 words are anagrams

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Curious fact about Euler's Number: Pick a uniformly random number in [0,1] and repeat until the sum of the numbers picked is >1. You'll on average pick e≈2.718... numbers!

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Is your DNA spiral turning in the right direction? Here's the easy way to find out

Great, now I can be pedantic about DNA logos, too.