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  2. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Birthday paradox: In a random group of only 23 people, there is a better than 50/50 chance two of them have the same birthday. Borel's paradox: Conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations. Boy or Girl paradox: A two-child family has at least one boy.

  3. Portal 2 - Wikipedia

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    Portal 2 is a 2011 puzzle-platform game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed by Electronic Arts. A port for the Nintendo Switch was included as part of Portal: Companion Collection .

  4. The Doors of Perception - Wikipedia

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    The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", [ 1 ] and reflects on their philosophical and ...

  5. Omnipotence paradox - Wikipedia

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    From the 14th-century Triunfo de Santo Tomás by Andrea da Firenze (di Bonaiuto). The omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term omnipotent. The paradox arises, for example, if one assumes that an omnipotent being has no limits and is capable of realizing any outcome, even a logically ...

  6. Portal (series) - Wikipedia

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    Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.

  7. Portal Stories: Mel - Wikipedia

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    Portal Stories: Mel. Portal Stories: Mel is a 2015 puzzle-platform modification for Portal 2 developed and published by Prism Studios. Set in the Portal universe, the player controls Mel, a test subject with a prototype of the portal gun who must escape an underground facility after spending decades in artificial hibernation by completing puzzles.

  8. Portal Reloaded - Wikipedia

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    Portal Reloaded was released for free on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms on April 19, 2021, to coincide with Portal 2 ' s ten-year anniversary. [2] [3] [13] Considering that it is a mod, users must own Portal 2 to play Portal Reloaded. [3] [5] Portal Reloaded also features a custom soundtrack, [10] [13] composed by Brinkman. [16]

  9. Bertrand's box paradox - Wikipedia

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    A veridical paradox is a paradox whose correct solution seems to be counterintuitive. It may seem intuitive that the probability that the remaining coin is gold should be ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠, but the probability is actually ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠. [1] Bertrand showed that if ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ were correct, it would result in a contradiction, so ⁠ 1 / 2 ...