December 19, 2022

December 19, 2022

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This is a great video for OPSEC lessons.

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Me: do you think he called himself T.S. Eliot so nobody would notice that T. Eliot is toilet backwards?

Librarian: stop talking

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**Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure**

It is very well known that intelligence or talent exhibit a Gaussian distribution among the population, whereas the distribution of wealth - considered a proxy of success - follows typically a power law (Pareto law). Such a discrepancy between a Normal distribution of inputs, with a typical scale, and the scale invariant distribution of outputs, suggests that some hidden ingredient is at work behind the scenes. In this paper, with the help of a very simple agent-based model, we suggest that such an ingredient is just randomness.

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The Polish chief of police fired a live grenade launcher inside his office. It blew up part of the ceiling, damaged his office, and injured himself and two others.

„I will not betray a great secret if I write that one of the Polish services wrote as a joke "Ordinance of the Chief on the ban on the use of hand grenade launchers in closed rooms”

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