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Nvidia GTX 1080 Blaise Pascal

Founder Edition GTX 1080 by Nvidia ^^ 
It brings me honor to know that Nvidia named their beastly high end GTX 1080 after my hero Blaise Pascal. It was Pascal's Wager that helped me to find my faith in God as an adult! 

From the web: Wikipedia & Google Search Results :)

Pascal's wager

The argument that it is in one's own best interest to behave as if God exists, since the possibility of eternal punishment in hell outweighs any advantage of believing otherwise.

Pascal argues that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas they stand to receive infinite gains (as represented by eternity in Heaven) and avoid infinite losses (eternity in Hell). 
God exists (G)God does not exist (¬G)
Belief (B)+∞ (infinite gain)−1 (finite loss)
Disbelief (¬B)−∞ (infinite loss)+1 (finite gain)
Given these values 
The option of living as if God exists (B) dominates the option of living as if God does not exist (¬B), as long as one assumes a positive probability that God exists. 
In other words, the expected value gained by choosing B is greater than or equal to that of choosing ¬B.

Pascal's Calculator 

A mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in the early 17th century. It was called the arithmetic machine and later became known as the Masculine.
Pascal's Triangle

A triangular array of the binomial coefficients in mathematics.
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