If there were only *one* choice such that everyone could pick it and be correct, then that would be the equilibrium. However, both 0 and 1 are “right answers”. This is because the “right answers” are the average rounded to the nearest integer. If everyone chooses 1, then two third of that rounded up is still 1.

This is…

Does this game even have a pure strategy Nash Equilibrium? It sounds like a bigger version of the penny game.

Good god, there’s a lot of hate in the comments, today.

Hipsters claiming they aren’t hipsters.

Melissa McCarthy enmity.

Aspersions about reading comprehension.

It’s a Friday, people, lighten up!

I hate to be a cynic (no I don’t).

The revenue from selling the bookends is just under $40k. The proceeds of the sales (I expect) is the revenue less the cost of production. Does the cost also include the actual demolition? What fraction of the proceeds (which could be rather tiny) actually goes to IU?

My recollection is that it seemed like an OK movie about a guy who might be a physicist whose life experienced sort of paralleled Richard Feynman but without any of the fun or excitement of discovery.

I’m not detracting from my agreement that Feynman would make a great subject, but his autobiographies and memoirs have been adapted before.

I’m hurt. I was speaking from the deep wells of sincerity that pool in my soul.

Speaking as a software developer, I cannot express enough how much I appreciate your perspective. There are few things I love more than dealing with 32-bit builds. The changing sizes of base types, the 4GB logical address space.... so many things to keep my job fun and exciting! Thank you!!!

For what it’s worth, when I was an undergrad learning all about how not to go blind in the laser physics lab, lasers with 1W+ output were the size of a small briefcase with a power supply to match and physically bolted to the lab bench. Wildly swinging the beam around wasn’t something one could just do.

JESUS CHRIST. That’s a Class 4 laser. You shouldn’t even TURN IT ON if you don’t know where the beam will be. IT WILL RUIN YOUR EYES. It’s not a fucking laser pointer.

If the associativity is traditional — multiplication and division associate higher than addition and subtraction, and operations on the same level associate left to right — then there are 136 solutions.

Digging deep into sordid Illinois politics, there....

I very nearly wrote that!

You know, I can understand disliking the showrunner for the direction of the show — that’s his job — but going after the actors is just petty. You don’t like it, and you lash out at the most recognizable figures rather than the script writers, directors, set designers, composers, effects technicians, &c. Why should…

Ok, while I am not a theoretical physicist, I *am* a physicist. What does ionization have to do with *any* of this? Many virtual particles (i.e. photons) don’t even carry charge!

Again, I ask you to elaborate.

Would you care to elaborate? What do you mean when you say “quantum vacuum is not immutable”?

The reason people with at least a high school background in physics are skeptical is that the thruster appears to violate conservation of linear momentum. That law has been validated at all observable scales in any number of different situations.

Nobody even died, which happened a lot with the American space program.

Your comment would be a lot more interesting if you included enough examples to make your use of the phrase “many different movies” more convincing.