Comment on A drunk person wandering outside will always find their way back but a drunk bird probably won't.
gogosempai@programming.dev 1 year agoIt’s a “shower thought” lol, not a research paper. Take it as a meme on random walk, which is always explained in universities using the example of a drunk guy so much so that it’s also known as “drunkard’s walk”. Should’ve posted this in a science/physics meme community, my bad.
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Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
NGL your comment has this vibe times a hundred to me
gogosempai@programming.dev 1 year ago
As I said, it’s a meme on the mathematical concept of random/drunkard walk. It’s not “wrong” given certain assumptions. For 2D, as the number of steps taken by a drunk tend to infinity, the probability of reaching the origin tends to 1:
youtu.be/stgYW6M5o4k
Real drunks don’t walk in pure 2D plane well of course they don’t, they don’t get infinite number of steps either. No need to take this so seriously. We all happily ignored the air resistance in physics class back in the day didn’t we? :)
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