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The second one is also used to denote something unexpected/untimely as much as improbable. Hungarian – The two most often used expressions are majd ha piros hó esik ("when red snow falls"), and majd ha cigánygyerekek potyognak az égből ("When gypsy children are streaming from the sky").
A statistically improbable phrase (SIP) is a phrase or set of words that occurs more frequently in a document (or collection of documents) than in some larger corpus. [1] [2] [3] Amazon.com uses this concept in determining keywords for a given book or chapter, since keywords of a book or chapter are likely to appear disproportionately within that section.
The Ig Nobels were created in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research, a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, who has been the master of ceremonies at all awards ceremonies. Awards were presented at that time for discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced".
Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time, both due to random and non-random natural and artificial processes, and that even improbable events can happen by random ...
For a sample of only 1,000 independent trials, however, the probability that the event does not happen in any of them, even once (improbability), is only [5] 0.999 1000 ≈ 0.3677, or 36.77%. Then, the probability that the event does happen, at least once, in 1,000 trials is ( 1 − 0.999 1000 ≈ 0.6323, or ) 63.23%. This means that this ...
Science and art sometimes collide – or coalesce, maybe – when a playwright decides to craft a drama suffused with an idea from the world of physics.
Improbable may refer to: Improbable (company), a British company founded in 2012; Improbable (novel), a 2005 science fiction thriller novel by Adam Fawer; Improbable (The X-Files), an episode in the ninth season of the science fiction television series; Improbable (horse), a racehorse; Improbable (theatre company), an English theatre company
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