Can somebody explain to me murphy's law IN DETAIL and give me an example? I mean, theres alot of times where things have gone right/not wrong and I will be pissed if the explanation is about the domino/butterfly effect or something.

Can somebody explain to me murphy's law IN DETAIL and give me an example?

Then the OP complains about the (minimal) length of text used by someone who was kind enough to give the said detail and example that they just asked for... Priceless.

Anyway, back to the point. Your example of Murphy's Law (Sod's Law really) is really good. Everything fails eventually, but ML is recursive, making your example slightly incomplete (but still understandable).

In your example you mention that all chips fail eventually, but ML is about the circumstances of when a given chip fails. The chip failing in the phone of someone trying to dial for emergency help would be a better example of ML.

Here are a few more examples of ML:

Biomechanics - The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach (eventually everywhere will itch, but at any given moment that itch is likely to be in the worst place for your ability to scratch it).

Personal shopping - As soon as you find a product that you really like, it gets discontinued (all things are eventually discontinued, but YOU just found the product).

Work - As soon as you sit down with your hot lunch, a customer crisis will happen that lasts just long enough for your lunch to get cold (all customers over a long enough period of time will have an emergency, but you just sat down to lunch).

A valuable dropped item will always fall into the most inaccessible place (everything will fall into everywhere given enough time, but it fell in the worst place THIS time for YOU).

Etc.

ML is recursive, that's where the distinction is. My favorite explanation has always been the following.

Washing your car is almost certain to make it rain. However if your intention is to make rain, then washing your car will probably just make someone slip and fall.

Either way, good example. It's a tremendously complex thing, and there's nowhere near enough room to get into it fully on Reddit.

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