Friday, March 21, 2025

Stumping AI

The best way to stump AI is to ask it really obscure questions.  One time I asked it about a WWF house show that took place at the Summit in Houston in 1997 shortly after Summerslam that year.  I asked it to guess not what the main event of that show actually WAS, but what the main event of the show was initially ADVERTISED to be.  It said Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker.  Not too bad of a guess because the first time those guys ever faced each other was very close to being around that time.

But the actual answer to that question was Stone Cold vs. Undertaker vs. Bret Hart in a triple threat match.  That was the advertised main event that I saw on a flyer in a store, and I remember being super excited to see it.  But unfortunately, Stone Cold was severely injured at Summerslam and could not perform at the following house show in Houston at all.  So, the main event ended up being Bret Hart vs the Undertaker, which I still enjoyed since I didn't see too many events live.  

What's sad is not only did that match not happen at that event, but it never ended up happening period.  By the time Stone Cold recovered enough from his injury to perform again, Bret Hart left the company and then retired shortly after.

If I asked AI that question again, maybe it learned the answer from me and would get the question right next time.  Or perhaps it would pull up and reference the text I'm writing now and try to use that as an answer.  Who knows.  I imagine it would have to trust my credibility.  But I remember that flyer for that triple threat match plain as day.  Even if everyone forgot it and there's no copies left, that flyer advertising Stone Cold vs. Undertaker vs. Bret Hart in Houston in 1997 really existed.  As Kurt Angle would say, it's true.  It's true.

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Easy Proof That the Square Root of a Prime is Irrational

Fun fact I discovered the other day.  I'm surprised I wasn't aware of it before.

Take any whole number.  Divide it by another whole number satisfying the condition that you have a fraction that may be improper but otherwise cannot be reduced.  (The two numbers in the fraction are relatively prime.)  

Multiply this fraction by itself.  If the bottom number of the fraction is larger, squaring the fraction will make the bottom number grow more than the top number, so you can't get a whole number by squaring this fraction.  A similar argument can be made if the top number is larger.  There's no way to get a whole number squaring the fraction in that case either.  

Since you cannot get a whole number by squaring a fraction, you can't have a fraction of this kind by taking the square root of a whole number.  So the only kind of number a square root of a whole number can be is either another whole number, or an irrational.  The square root of a prime cannot be a whole number since it has no whole number factors, so the square root of a prime is irrational.

Friday, January 3, 2025

Enough

I don't necessarily want equal.  I just want enough.  Enough is sometimes less than what others have.  And sometimes it's more.  

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Reasoning

The only thing more fun than having NO reason for doing something is having a STUPID reason for doing something.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Do Left-Handed People Get Sick Less Often?

I'm left-handed, and historically I haven't been sick very often.  I had a silly thought that it's perhaps because I always shake hands with my right hand when I encounter people, and don't use my right hand for much anything else.  So with potential germs from others primarily on my non-dominant hand, maybe that's a reason I don't get sick as much.

I'm guessing nobody has tested that through a controlled science experiment yet, but I have no idea.

Monday, June 17, 2024

Effective Lies

 Lies can be very effective when they make more sense than the truth.

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

The Watchmaker (well... Bookmaker) Argument

The universe is 10^18 seconds old, and there are 10^82 atoms in the universe. If you multiply these two numbers together, it's still FAR smaller than the denominator of the probability of typing Hamlet randomly, which is over 10^130,000 possibilities. I don't know if the universe can make a watch randomly, but it DARN sure isn't able to make a book like Hamlet randomly, unless it gets many, many orders of magnitude older.