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A Memory of Quantum Computation Summer School

bernauyanik wrote 1 hour ago: When I was our Quantum Computation summer school I asked the teacher a question: “Is there a u … more →

Tags: Math, quantum mechanics, Unit

Qualia Soup: "It *could* just be coincidence"

Dan Fincke wrote 13 hours ago: Two days ago I posted a link to a terrific radio show on highly unlikely events and the fascinating … more →

Tags: Atheism and Agnosticism, Science, videos, Chance, Coincidence?, mathematics, randomness, statistics, supernaturalism

Chess can be a Game of Luck 6 comments

Gil Kalai wrote 18 hours ago: Can chess be a game of luck? Let us consider the following two scenarios: A) We have a chess tourna … more →

Tags: Controversies, Economics, Games, Law, Rationality, Chess, Gambling, Games of luck, games of skill

New Problem: One More Coin-Flipping Game

Mark Eichenlaub wrote 1 day ago: This problem comes from a TED talk by Peter Donnelly Alice and Bob are flipping fair coins (in a fai … more →

Tags: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS!, Coin Flips

Changing the summit of math education?5 comments

Robert wrote 1 day ago: Arthur Benjamin thinks that the current model of the mathematics curriculum — leading from ari … more →

Tags: Calculus, Education, High School, Math, Teaching, Arthur Benjamin, Discrete Math, statistics, TeD

Adding Probabilities

Tony Clayton wrote 3 days ago: Mutually Non-Exclusive Events - Events that CAN happen at the same time For example, pretend the bl … more →

Tags: 4.1 Probability, mutually exclusive, Mutually non-exclusive

Jhakaas Idea: Bench Productivity-Time Graph (BPTG) and Bench-Productivity-Probability-Metrics (BPPM)3 comments

Jai wrote 4 days ago: This post is Food for Thought for the people who have been through it or have been into handling or … more →

Tags: Fun, General, bench, graph, Metrics, Productivity

Bayesian inference of multinomial distribution parameters

incanter wrote 4 days ago: The multinomial distribution is used to describe data where each observation is one of k possible ou … more →

Tags: Bayesian inference, clojure, conditional probability, dirichlet distribution, incanter, multinomial distribution

Interview: Goran Mitic1 comment

fractalzoom wrote 5 days ago: Yes! Goran got his interview back to me today, and I’ll post it now since I won’t be pla … more →

Tags: air hockey, BlackJack, goran, Interview, mitic

Two Clichés Walk into a Bar: Teaming in Risus

theletteromega wrote 5 days ago: Teaming in Risus A previous post discussed the mechanics of Risus, a free, simple RPG. It showed t … more →

Tags: Community, Dice, Game, Game design, Risus, RPGs, Rules, statistics

I could just be coincidence

Jim Gardner wrote 6 days ago: … more →

Tags: Pictures & Videos, Coincidence?

Chances are...

tachyonkid wrote 6 days ago: This is a link to a scene from a show called “NUMB3RS”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P … more →

Tags: Math, NUMB3RS, game show

The Study of Unicorns1 comment

alexpenduck wrote 6 days ago: My younger brother is becoming one of those life long students. He has just finished a degree in mus … more →

Tags: Christianity, ancient, Chemistry, degree, God, Gospel of Truth, Hard Questions, Jesus Christ, Oxford University

A roller coaster ride on Rails

Kwabena wrote 1 week ago: This summer has been fun so far albeit somewhat frustrating with my venturing into web applications … more →

Tags: Education, Software, Programming, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Web development, Programming languages, edsger dijkstra, alan perlis

Excessive Anti-Existential Illogical Probability of Life Philosophy

Magnus wrote 1 week ago: Greek symbol of eternity, cyclability FYI: I don’t actually believe this and I am clueless ab … more →

Tags: Philosophy, existentialism, crazy philosophy, Infinite, Infinitives

Threshold behavior for non-monotone graph properties

matthewkahle wrote 1 week ago: One of my research interests is what you might call non-monotone graph properties. A seminal result … more →

Tags: Research, Combinatorics

Experts vs Think-for-yourself

satpal wrote 1 week ago: “experts violate a fundamental rule of probabilities by tending to find scenarios with more v … more →

Tags: Idea, Expert, hedgehogs and foxs, prediction

Make a safer choice1 comment

Jemyoung Leigh wrote 1 week ago: Once I met a man thinking the fruits sold in Canada would be cleaner than those in Korea without che … more →

Tags: Lang:English, Lang:한국어, Subj:Christianity, 과일, Fruit, God is, 안전한 선택, 확률, 유신론

Monty Hall in Monte Carlo3 comments

incanter wrote 1 week ago: The Monty Hall problem, named after the host of the Let’s Make a Deal game show, first appear … more →

Tags: incanter, clojure, Monty Hall, Monte Carlo Simulation, conditional probability