#occam's razor

[falcemartello]

E pensare che la risposta giusta a quasi tutto è: “non me ne frega un cazzo”.

[vaspider]

Okay I know I said I was going to sleep but y'all.

Are people seriously saying that a company that can't properly bolt on a door or an emergency slide has perfect opsec on a contract killing plan to off a dude by giving him MRSA, pneumonia, and a stroke?

Is that really the argument people are making?

Really?

[quinloki]

Outside the box

Source

[funnyscienceman]

good song btw

[tournamentstuck]

On review, this tournament seems a bit convoluted. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

!! Freshest Artifact To Get Into Hands With Intent Of Harm !!

This is the masterpost for the tournament! I will be linking each individual poll underneath as the tournament goes on.

Propaganda is welcomed and encouraged! I will reblog any and all that comes my way.

Due to the size and diversity of weapons in Homestuck I have divided the tournament into pools. This is so we dont have two swords or two hammers or two assault rifles for the finals so on so forth. To keep track of pools with more than one round of brackets, these pool-brackets will now be called Acts. If a Pool doesn't have more than one Act it will not be refereed to with one.

--Round One Pool One Act OneCutlass of Zillywair VS Occam's Razor

Bec Noir's Body Sword Thing VS Human Pornography Sword

Caledfwlch VS Snoop Dogg Snow Cone Machete

Shitty Ninja Sword VS Unbreakable Katana

sord VS Bait and Switchblade

Scarlet Ribbitar VS Regisword

Royal Deringer VS Ancestral Awakening Sword

Saber Rattle VS Caledscratch

--Round One Pool Two Act One

MSPA Standard Issue Pistol VS Doc Scratch's Magnum

Calliope's Magnum VS Flintlock Pistols

Flintlocks of Zillyhau VS Golden Pistols

Fin's Fiveshooter VS Twin M9 Berettas

--Round One Pool Three

Jade's Newspaper VS Diamond Droog's Newspaper

--Round One Pool Four

Suitarangs VS Sollux's Throwing Stars

--Round One Pool Five Act One

Quills Of Echidna VS Thorns of Oglogoth

Thistles Of Zillywich VS Needlewands

Cue Needles VS Knitting Needles

--Round One Pool Six

Equius's Fists VS Roxy's Fists

--Round One Pool Seven Act One

Ψdon's Entente VS HIC's Double Trident

Meenah's Double Trident VS Brainfork

--Round One Pool Eight

Clubs Deuce VS Table Leg

--Round One Pool Nine

White Wand VS Empiricist's Wand

--Round One Pool Ten Act One

Broken Caledscratch VS Broken Royal Deringer

Broken Scarlet Ribbitar VS Broken Caledfwich

--Round One Pool Eleven Act One

Sledgehammer VS Warhammer Of Zillyhoo

Pogo Hammer VS Wrinklefucker

Pop-A-Matic Vrillyhoo Hammer VS Claw Hammer

Fear No Anvil VS Telescopic Sassacrusher

--Round One Pool Twelve Act One

Battlespork of Zillywut VS Skaia War Fork

Junior Battermaster's Bowlbuster Poking Solution 50000 VS Red Skaia War Fork

--Round One Pool Thirteen

Kanaya's Chainsaw VS Demonbane Ragripper

--Round One Pool Fourteen Act One

Fiduspear VS Jousting Lance

Cigarette Holder VS Daggerlance

--Round One Pool Fifteen Act One

Registickle VS Homes Smell Ya Later

Sickle VS Clawsickle

--Round One Pool Sixteen Act One

Green Sun Scepter VS Walking Can

Dragon Cane VS Gold Scepter

Black Scepter VS Spear Cane

Cast Iron Horse Hitcher VS Bull Penis Cane

--Round One Pool Seventeen

Con Air Bunny VS Liv Tyler

--Round One Pool Eighteen

Claw Gloves VS Action Claws

--Round One Pool Nineteen Act One

Ahab's Crosshairs VS Girl's Best Friend

Black Rifle VS Green Sun Streetsweeper

Harpoon Gun VS Proton Canon

Laser Gun VS Hunting Rifle

LE's AR VS Crockercorp Appearifier Rifle

Gold Rifle VS Blunderbuss of Zillywigh

Mom's Rifle VS Blunderbuss

DD's AK VS DD's AR

Previous Rounds Below The Break!

there arent any yet lol

[jellybeanium124]

you know if we're living in a simulation there's probably millions of signs but all of that is just normal to us because we've only ever lived in the simulation.

[eucanthos]

eucanthos

Peter Downsbrough graph paper, 1972

Zanocco Customed industrial solutions [eyebrow]

Eye On the anatomy of vertebrates Richard Owen 1866

Larsen Sotelo One Eye 2022

1920's green Tin Toy telephone

Yayoi Kusama to Georgia O'Keeffe 1963 paper cut

[regurgitated older collage Jan 30, 2024 post]

OCCAM’S RAZOR The principle of simplicity or parsimony:

"if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one"

https://www.newscientist.com/definition/occams-razor/

PDF: https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/images/personal-jacob-feldman/papers/feldman_simplicity_2016.pdf

[lost-carcosa]

[bonniehooper]

HOUSE REWATCH 1x03: "Occam's Razor"

-Of course, House is doing and saying everything he can so no one will want to be seen by him.

-Oh my God, this poor girl is going to think her screwing him caused him this to happen to him.

-What the hell was that conversation between Foreman, Chase, and Cameron?

-Foreman: "I think your argument is specious." House: "I think your tie is ugly." Great argument there, House.

-Wait, this is how you're going to tell your parents that you not only have a girlfriend, but you're engaged?!

-Chase: "What because he thinks outside the box, he's evil?" Foreman: "He doesn't even know where the box is."

-Is he playing video games while a patient is sitting in front of him waiting to be seen?

-He called Cuddy away from her board meeting to mess with her. What an asshole.

-Wilson: "That smugness is such an attractive trait." House: "Thank you. It's either that or highlights. Smugness is easier to maintain." God, I love and hate him all at the same time.

-So, because the pharmacy screwed up his prescription, that's why he's sick?

-Wait, so if that was actually cough medicine, then what made him sick?

-Okay, but should they be doing that? Shouldn't someone from cardiology be doing this?

-This guy stuck a MP3 player up his ass?!

-So, he was poisoned by the gout medicine, but from someone cutting ecstasy with it?

-So, it was a mistake at the pharmacy?! I'm so confused!!

[falcemartello]

Buongiorno,

fa un freddo cane, ma per non inquinare la Terra non possiamo accendere il riscaldamento.

Immagina ritenere normale dover aspettare l’autorizzazione del sindaco per accendere il riscaldamento. LOL

[detective-jane-rizzoli]

[doloresaugust]

Another 10-ish year old piece I recently found. Not 100% sure, but it’s very likely Sonia Whateley and Mudpuppy from “Occam’s Razor” by @blairtrabbit . BTW I just started reading the story again and my brain is literally trembling.

[transholmes]

Listen I know everyone tries to come up with all sorts of traumatic reasons for why Holmes uses drugs but personally I find it far more likely that he tried them out of curiosity and a desire for personal knowledge of their effect, decided he liked the feeling, and kept going.

Like we're talking about the man about whom one of the first things we learn, before we're even introduced to him, that he'd poison a flatmate or himself, in the pursuit of knowledge. Who does in fact years later do just that!

Tell me this guy didn't test out cocaine on himself just to find out what it was really like?

[tournamentstuck]

Masterpost

[humornthoughts]

(Transcript for those of you with screen readers bcuz I couldn’t figure out how to attach it to the image itself on mobile for some reason)

Person 1:

Chekov's Cat: if you see a cat in the first act, it will probably be relevant later. (example: Alien)

Shrodinger's razor: an unopened box may or may not contain the solution to the story; there's no way to know without opening it. (example: Monk)

Occam's gun: the simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them. (example: Bambi)

Person 2:

Chekov's Box: If there is a container introduced in the opening act, it will be opened later.

Schrodinger's Gun: Treat every gun as if It's loaded unless you've checked it yourself.

Occar's Cat: If you hear strange noises at night, it's probably a cat.

Person 3:

Chekhov's gun: a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.

Occam's razor: if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.

Shrodingers cat- a cat in a box with poison that has a 50% chance of breaking, we will not know if the cat is dead or alive until opening the box leaving the cat in a perpetual state of uncertainty

[phantomstag]

panzerfaust — occam's razor

each age must pay a price for indifference

you needn‘t look any further

the universe is wrought with their works