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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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[-] yata@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The thing is that drunken walking/flying is still not completely random.

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