Meta: I asked a lot of people the same question and they’ve all given different answers. Fascinating.
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.
Sometimes I go outside. Sometimes it rains. The two are somewhat correlated.:-)
A sign of flawed methodology.
Debugging pretty much any multithreaded application…
Life
Gathering statistics
Inconsistency
Quantum physics
Chaos.
Rolling dice
Not always! There’s a miniscule chance that you’ll get the same results twice or thrice in a row.
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.
Me measuring anything.
PhD grad student