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• in Sports
  NHL Playoffs First Round: One Of Everything
  One of each seed passed through the first round, which shouldn't happen that often but does.
  by sussman / on Apr 30, 2010
• in Politics
  Nate Silver: Terrorist Risk Will Never Disappear
  His WSJ column points out the very small, albeit nonzero, risk of someone dying in a terrorist attack. Conclusion: you're pretty much safe!
  by sussman / on Jan 9, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “probability”

 

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• $100 Invested in 100 $1 Lottery Tickets

  
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  The thrill and rush of possibly winning started to wear off after about the twentieth losing ticket. Each card had a couple of "Life" symbols on them, and every time you got a second you just dreamed of seeing the third one under the remaining graphite. However it never appeared and never will and it just kind of ...
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• Common Coincidence

  
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  After reading ‘Check, Please!’ 1 on www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com I wanted to investigate how common this occurrence is, as the total bill for a group of 4 people must occur fairly frequently when the menu is fairly small or has similar prices. First of all, I needed to find a restaurant menu I could use to obtain ...
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• Mechanics of Gravity Modification

  
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  The Rocky Mountain chapter of the American Institute of Astronautics & Aeronautics (AIAA) will be having their 2 nd Annual Technical Symposium, October 25 2013. The call for papers ends May 31 2013. I would recommend submitting your papers. This conference gives you the opportunity to put your work together in a ...
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• Introductory Statistics – Midterm 2 condensed cheat sheet

  
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• Cincinnati Bengals: Will Shawn Williams be the Starting Safety Week 1?

  
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  Daniel Shirey-USA TODAY Sports With the 84th pick of the 2013  NFL   Draft , the   Cincinnati Bengals  chose strong safety  Shawn Williams . After the Bengals passed up on safeties   Matt Elam  and  Jonathan Cyprien  with their first-round pick in favor of   Notre Dame  tight end  Tyler Eifert ...
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• Pareto’s principle or the 80/20 rule

  
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  Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist, who in 1906 noticed that hat twenty percent of the population owned eighty percent of the wealth. This has become known as Pareto’s Principle or more descriptively as the 80/20 rule. In this article from 2002, Microsoft noted that 80 percent of the errors and crashes ...
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• Getting Home Business Suggestions Which Will Help

  
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• When a non-observation is an observation

  
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  Consider a standard Stern-Gerlach setup. An electron with mixed up/down spin is sent through a magnetic field. Then there are electron detectors that detect whether it went up or down. Now, the up detector is connected to a very loud bell. The down detector is connected to a dim light. On the standard ...
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• Evolution, Time, Typing and Monkey Business

  
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  Have you heard the one about the monkeys and the typewriters? ( If youre too young to know what a typewriter is, click here .) So here it is: Given enough time, typewriters and so forth, monkeys will produce all or part of the works of Shakespeare. Isnt that hilarious ? But seriously, folks, the ...
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• What Is The Luckiest Number in Dice? Fun with Grandchildren

  
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  Probability.  American, Chinese, and casino dice (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Your grandchildren may play board games that use two dice, like Parcheesi, a current grandchild favorite. Have you ever wondered what is the most common number you can get when you roll two dice and add them together, or if there ...
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• A curiosity

  
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  Suppose that L is an unknown natural number (1,2,3,...) and as far as we know, all positive numbers are equally likely candidate for L . The number L is input into a machine, and pressing a button generates a natural number between 1 and L , which number is shown. Consider the probabilistic distribution for ...
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• Life expectancy

  
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  Suppose I think of my present conscious state as uniformly randomly chosen out of all of my conscious states. Now, suppose the following two hypotheses both start off as having equal probability: NoAfterlife: I will live for about 80 years. Afterlife: I will live for an infinite number of years. I now ...
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• Both Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty Create Risk

  
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  ..."at what point does the decision NOT to obtain accessible knowledge about reducible exposures [epistemic uncertainty] - such as excessive complexity - become a Corporate Governance issue?"
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• Blog Giveaways - How People Lose

  
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  This morning I entered a blog giveaway . But I didnt enter in all the ways I could. I stopped when I was prompted to "share this on Facebook" to get an extra entry. I thought, "I dont want more people to enter. I want me to win. And if I share, Ill let others in." Bad Bon! I know - but thats how I am. ...
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• More sides or more dice?

  
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  My previous post looked at rolling 5 six-sided dice as an approximation of a normal distribution. If you wanted a better approximation, you could roll dice with more sides, or you could roll more dice. Which helps more? Whether you double the number of sides per die or double the number of dice, you have the same ...
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• Ranking 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs first-round series: Which ones are must-see? (Puck Daddy)

  
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  The 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs matchups are set . But which ones are worth watching? Admittedly, some series have a bit more going for them than others, whether it’s the hate quotient or the potential for chaos or star power or atmosphere. And let’s face it: Those series that might go the distance intrigue us more ...
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