Life, death, and other statistical improbabilities

In which I discuss life, death, and other statistical improbabilities. Open for numerical musings about qualities of life.

Industrial and systems engineering is 50% statistics/math and 50% process engineering. It is truly a course of study I believe was meant for me. But even after going through it, I have managed to have feelings about life statistics. The number of events that it took to get you where you are today is nearly infinite, thanks to the butterfly effect. That means the odds of you happening are infinitesimal. The odds of any version of you happening are infinitesimal. But that's when you're taking into account everything that had to happen to get you where you are today. Yet,...