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A drunk person wandering outside will always find their way back but a drunk bird probably won't. (programming.dev)
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Explanation: Random walk in 2D has a unity probability of making it back to the starting point as the number of steps approach infinity but random walk in 3D only has ~0.34.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if we ignore that birds can't fly infinitely high, and also that they don't live in the air they live on a surface, in essentially a 2D area the same as humans, maybe this is interesting? But not really lol.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you limit the extent of the third dimension to any finite value then my intuition says the probability is probably back to 100% but I don't know for certain.