User reactivated Fun Fact Friday. Bounty included.
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So, let’s hear all your best fun facts, any topic counts!
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1196 sats \ 8 replies \ @IamSINGLE 5 Jul

World's Highest Village

Komic (also spelled as Komik) is a small village located at an elevation of 4,587 m (15,049 ft) in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh with population of 130 of out of which 90 males and 40 are females as per Population Census 2011.

Komic Village in Winter

Komic Village with tall Himalyas

Komic in Summer (Down the valley)

Komic Monastery

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1038 zaps zapped! Congrats 🎉
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Thank you so much!!!
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Welcome! Thanks to the stackers who voted with their sats.
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Not sure whether it is really the highest, as far as I remember there might be places in Peru and around with an elevation even above 5000m. Nevertheless, it is a very nice village.
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It's the highest village!
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La Rinconada in Peru 5100m, “connected with motorable road” could play a role, maybe?
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Nice try, fed!
La Rinconada is a town in the Peruvian Andes near a gold mine. At up to 5,100 m (16,700 ft; 3.2 mi) above sea level, it is the highest permanent settlement in the world.
BTW! Thanks for the information! I really don't know about it.
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Germany first time hosting as a unified nation.
Germany has not hosted a Men’s European Football Championship since its first and only time in 1988, when it hosted the continental competition of European countries as West Germany. EURO 2024 will see the nation host the tournament for the first time since reunification.
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 5 Jul
My fun fact today is that my wife saved me 27,888 SATS thanks to a thread. My 7-year-old daughter had a loose tooth🦷 for many days and this weekend she had an appointment at the dentist🧑‍⚕️ to get her tooth removed. hahaha so the doctor will no longer take away my precious SATS 😹hahahaha. Who he can't save me from is the tooth🧚 fairy, he takes 4648 for her services. which I will later enjoy seeing how my daughter falls into the temptation of 💸spending, with the first tooth haha ​​it took more than 15 days until she said okay, I will use my money💰, and I spend it on extra time for a park of mats, balls and trampolines.
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 5 Jul
'Longest' word has 189,819 letters, takes three hours to pronounce
'Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine' is the chemical name of 'titin'.
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A fun and interesting fact about Fridays is that the name "Friday" originates from Old English "Frīgedæg," which means "Day of Frigg." Frigg, or Frigga, was a Norse goddess associated with love, beauty, and fertility. This is similar with the Roman goddess Venus, who is also associated with love and beauty, and after whom Friday is named in Latin-based languages (e.g., "viernes" in Spanish and "vendredi" in French).
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Guilford CT has a road called Podunk
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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @Lux 5 Jul
George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were not US citizens
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Aye they americans
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You’ve been reading the 1619 project
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117 sats \ 0 replies \ @jp305 5 Jul
43 buildings in New York City that have their own ZIP codes
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @NRS 5 Jul
The bees communicate complex information through their dances. When a bee discovers a new food source, it performs a dance known as the "waggle dance" to inform other bees about the direction and distance to the food location.
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Texas holdem and rock paper scissors (RPS) are played similarly in theory.
If you played your friend (Bob) 100 games of RPS it would be wise if you to play to Nash equilibrium. play each option 33/33/33, in a random fashion. If you truly randomize your actions at this frequency you are guaranteed one beautiful and very important thing over time: a tie!
This is a powerful realization because if we apply this balanced strategy to our game it forces our opponent to do something: play the exact same way or lose over time. Now what’s nice is Bob (opponent) is not a game theory nerd and he doesn’t really care about optimal RPS so he will not apply it when you play him. Instead he will identify false patterns in your game and react accordingly, he may try to trick you, who knows. What we can surmise though, is that Bob will have a bias towards either rock, paper, or scissors. When we know what a perfectly balanced strategy looks like then it becomes substantially easier to quickly identify our opponents imbalances and react accordingly. If we recognize that our opponent favors paper to any degree over 33% then we have identified an exploit. Now we are obligated to deviate from Nash equilibrium and choose scissors 100% of the time. Now we have gone from a guaranteed expected value of (EV) 0 (a tie) to an EV of X varied on how strong Bobs bias towards paper is.
Texas holdem is no different in theory. You can play the game to Nash equilibrium and generate an EV of 0. Of course it’s nearly infinitely more complex to do so (impossible for a human even) but still: ecause thats true, in order to really play the game well, it’s imperative to study what a perfectly balanced strategy actually looks like. Again, a familiarity with balance will make the imbalances in our opponents clear and now it becomes easier to articulate the correct response. In poker, if you think and play this way, and your opponents do not, you can dance around each opponent like an expert swordsman on the battlefield. Virtually untouchable, every attempt to ensnare, cut down, or capture the assailant is met with a perfectly orchestrated response. In poker we fight for EV. In order to generate the most EV you must understand how your opponents are deviating from an EV of zero, and find the adjustment. No different from choosing scissors 100% of time against bobs biased decision making.
Source: game theory
Additional info on Nash equilibrium:
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Nash is legend ~
satoshi nakamoto can be rewritten into I am nash Sato & moto
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NRS 5 Jul
If you constantly think about Bitcoin, you're suffering from a condition known as 'Bitcoinitis'
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Neil Armstrong backwards is Gnorts Mr. Alien.
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Did you know that It snows metal on Venus!
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When you run Bitcoin core you Use port 8333 by default !
Number 8333 has meaning of strength and blessing with it ~
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Abraham blessings are mine!!!
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