Scientists Finally Sequence the Entire Human Genome While 92% of the human genome was sequenced in 2003, scientists have struggled to map the remaining 8%. Until now.

https://www.cnet.com ^ | April 1, 2022 9:45 a.m. PT | David Lumb

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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• Workers Rebuilding Notre Dame Have Discovered Previously Unknown Tombs and a Mysterious Sarcophagus Beneath the Cathedral [03/26/2022]
• Why Did Vikings Mysteriously Leave Greenland? We May Finally Know The Reason [03/26/2022]
• Archaeologists Created a VR Rendering of an Ancient Pompeian Home That You Can Walk Through [03/25/2022]
• A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas [10/07/2021]

[Salamander]

The remaining 8% is salamander genes.

You heard it here, first.

[Salamander]

I await the day they find the “gay gene” and the resulting “elective abortions” that will surely follow.

It will be liberal chaos.

[Red Badger]

God don’t make no junk....................

[Red Badger]

Cthulhu!.....................

[arthurus]

Now they can start tinkering with it and eventually force their tinkerings on the population at large or the portion of it remaining after the Vax population reduction program has run its course.

[SunkenCiv]

52 Factorial

One of my favorite fun facts to share with someone is how no matter how implausible it seems, every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you've produced a sequence of cards that has never existed before.

It's of course natural to doubt or even disagree with this. After all, 52! just cannot be fit into any type of visualization with an object we are familiar with. So we cant mentally picture just how immense it is. For this reason I like to say there are an infinite ways to shuffle a deck of cards. Since no human nor humanity itself could ever possibly produce every single combination.

Seriously. If humanity managed to become some kind of card shuffling empire and managed to shuffle a trillion unique decks a second since the start of the universe you legitimately wouldn't accomplish anything.

I cannot explain with words how large 52! is.

As unique as each individual order of cards is, more so is the person you are. Not even considering the genetic possibilities for a person but the life decisions and experiences you've encountered throughout. You may not feel it. But it's pretty crazy that you exist.

The sand calculations I just took as an amalgam of the tons of different rough estimates I can find on the web. It ranges from 10^18 up to 10^25.

The Incomprehensible Scale of 52! | September 24, 2020 | But Why?

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OTOH, the Kruskal Count and the probability paradox

Sometimes math is so beautifully tricky, and presented in such a subtle way, that it’s virtually indistinguishable from magic. Welcome to The Kruskal Count.

David Copperfield is probably the most famous living magician/illusionist, and he’s made use of the Kruskal Count to convince millions of people worldwide that he harbors amazing predictive powers. Does he? Well… yes and no.

At the core of his mathematical mind reading is physicist Martin Kruskal’s discovery that certain counting games are really a sequence of chains that can intersect and eventually become one single chain. Using that knowledge of well-concealed probability, it’s easy to perform a mind-blowing demonstration that appears to be pure magic.

But it doesn’t *always* work, because that’s the way probability goes. Sometimes it’s perfect, sometimes it isn’t. By examining the Kruskal Count as a magic trick and also through its original card-based format, we’ll see that magic can be math… and math can be magic.

The Number Illusion You Won't Believe | February 26, 2020 | Vsauce2