Meta: I asked a lot of people the same question and they’ve all given different answers. Fascinating.
A sign of flawed methodology.
Sometimes I go outside. Sometimes it rains. The two are somewhat correlated.:-)
Rolling dice
Not always! There’s a miniscule chance that you’ll get the same results twice or thrice in a row.
Gathering statistics
Quantum physics
Inconsistency
If you are improving consistency by doing the same thing over and over then you are practicing.
In that case the difference is in chance to succeed, not really a different intended outcome which is what the saying is trying to get at.
Debugging pretty much any multithreaded application…
Chaos.
Life
opening pokemon cards or loot boxes 😭
Unknown variables
Nah, just throw all the unknowns into a the error term at the end of the equation and call it a day. All models are wrong, but some are close enough.
PhD grad student
Me measuring anything.
