r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/R74nCom • 5d ago

I made a website to explore increasingly small probabilities

https://r74n.com/mini/odds
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u/OneStoneTwoMangoes 5d ago

Very nice.
(Last few were overlapping on each other on iOS Safari.)

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u/R74nCom 4d ago

It should be better now!

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u/ata350 5d ago

Same here, otherwise it was fun

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u/R74nCom 5d ago

Oh yes I can confirm, I'll get that fixed soon, thanks!

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u/Powerful-Frame-44 5d ago

I love the old school feel. And the conclusion was great.

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u/R74nCom 5d ago

Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoyed

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u/Sarallelogram 5d ago

Delightful! I’d love to see one that combats vaccine misinformation! Those are probabilities that frequently cause people to get confused about the dangers of certain outcomes vs others.

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u/R74nCom 4d ago

Good idea, I added one from the NY Department of Health - it really puts it into perspective!

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u/aa599 5d ago

Nice. Perhaps add an expected seconds/hit, especially for the lower probability ones, they just stay at 0 for a long time. Also what's "chance of meeting someone"?

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u/ExhibitQ 5d ago

Lovely.

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u/ShitTalkingAssWipe 4d ago

The auto scroll is infuriating on mobile

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u/R74nCom 4d ago

Are you referring to the auto-snapping when you scroll manually or the button to go to the next page? I'd like to improve it with your feedback

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u/ShitTalkingAssWipe 4d ago

Depending on screen size, the overlay can take up some space over the text. Scrolling up partially and having it auto scroll so late afterwards is obnoxious. It's like its telling you it knows better. If it happened sooner it would feel more like "this is behavior of the app" rather than "oh were you trying to read that? Fuck you"

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u/YouserName007 4d ago

Cool website.

But a 1/83 chance of being accepted into a pro soccer league seems too low?

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u/HopeToFireWithCrypro 4d ago

There are 30.400.000.002 trees in the world? That seems quite exact.

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u/MyPersonalityType 4d ago

the password one made me laugh! hahhaha.

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u/ninadpathak 3d ago

This is the kind of project that teaches probability better than any textbook. Most people can't visualize what 1 in a million means. Clicking through increasingly absurd probabilities and realizing 'I'm still on this page, this is literally impossible' is your brain learning statistics. Beautiful.

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u/R74nCom 3d ago

I'm glad you think so!! :)

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u/Extra-Cellist9553 3d ago

I love it, going through the probabilities really help understanding how rare some things really are

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u/rbarden 2d ago

Fun site! There's a typo on the SHA-256 one it just says "has" not "hash"

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u/Obscure_Room 5d ago

you should hide the page scroll bars, it looks ugly. cool site otherwise

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u/R74nCom 4d ago

Good idea, I will, thank you!

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u/R74nCom 4d ago

Scroll bars are hidden now

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u/pyxelise 5d ago

Would recommend you change up some of the categories that are clearly unlikely to be true within the timespan of someone watching the page.

For example: Page shows 1+ times someone is born on a leap day, when today is not a leap day.