Friday’s session looked like a playbook example concerning -form a historical and statictical perspective- the most probable outcome based on those setups which were trigged on close of Thursda… more →
Trading the Oddsbernauyanik wrote 1 hour ago: When I was our Quantum Computation summer school I asked the teacher a question: “Is there a u … more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Robert wrote 1 day ago: Arthur Benjamin thinks that the current model of the mathematics curriculum — leading from ari … more →
Tony Clayton wrote 3 days ago: Mutually Non-Exclusive Events - Events that CAN happen at the same time For example, pretend the bl … more →
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 →
incanter wrote 4 days ago: The multinomial distribution is used to describe data where each observation is one of k possible ou … more →
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 →
theletteromega wrote 5 days ago: Teaming in Risus A previous post discussed the mechanics of Risus, a free, simple RPG. It showed t … more →
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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 →
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 →
Kwabena wrote 1 week ago: This summer has been fun so far albeit somewhat frustrating with my venturing into web applications … more →
Magnus wrote 1 week ago: Greek symbol of eternity, cyclability FYI: I don’t actually believe this and I am clueless ab … more →
matthewkahle wrote 1 week ago: One of my research interests is what you might call non-monotone graph properties. A seminal result … more →
satpal wrote 1 week ago: “experts violate a fundamental rule of probabilities by tending to find scenarios with more v … more →
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 →
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 →