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psyklic
18y ago
It depends on the field, the professor, and the university. There are too many variables to make blanket statements. Should it affect your decision to go to graduate school? No.
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18y ago
The three states are not equiprobable. Suppose that she must say instead which particular state she is most likely to be in: M+T, T+T, or M+H. Well, we know that Heads is chosen 1/2 of the time, so she should choose M+H! After all, the prob
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psyklic
18y ago
You are proposing the 1/3 argument -- by answering tails, she will get it right more often across trials . But, 1/2 of the time she will be awoken once, and 1/2 she will be awoken 1,000,000 times. So, let's suppose she is awoken. There are
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psyklic
18y ago
There are three states, but they are not equiprobable. One-half of the time she'll be asked once, and one-half of the time she'll be asked twice. Hence, the one-half argument is because she'll only be in the "once" (Heads) state 1/2 of the
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18y ago
Definitely. If your goal is to maximize the number of correct guesses across all questionings , then always answer 1/3. If your goal is to guess the current coin flip as accurately as possible, then always answer 1/2. (I interpret the qu
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18y ago
Why should Firefox support plug-ins at all, if not to compensate for a lack of features? Why should Emacs support scripting, if not to compensate for a lack of features? The point is that we enjoy FF plug-ins and Emacs scripts because they
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18y ago
Linkification for Firefox works wonders. Get the 1.3.4 Beta at the bottom of the page for FF3: http://yellow5.us/firefox/linkification
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18y ago
I actually learned Rails after knowing PHP, and I felt that my knowledge of web fundamentals (generally, how web sites are built and architected) was greatly enhanced by my PHP knowledge. It also gives you an appreciation of what Rails make
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18y ago
You might want to learn PHP first, especially if you're new to programming. Not only is PHP easy to learn, but it is also useful for quickly testing out simpler webpages. By learning PHP, you'll also learn how web programming is traditional
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18y ago
Actually, the complexity of synaptic structure between species is not obvious (and hence, this is one reason the article made it into Nature Neuroscience, a highly regarded journal). Since the neuron is the fundamental unit of the nervous s
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18y ago
1.5 e+3 = 1500 people. Is this large enough of a market? It seems like it may not have much growth potential ...
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18y ago
6. I jumped right in without watching the video, and I got pretty frustrated when I wanted to type text and didn't see a toolbar option. I didn't even think about just typing. I do think you should add it, then "power users" will figure out