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by splat 17y ago
Yes, let's think back to these ills you mentioned.... Who put them in place? Oh yes, it was politicians. I'm glad they eventually corrected their mistakes, but I won't deify them simply because they did so.
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by splat 17y ago
If you'd like to read a refresher on the calculus of multiple variables, I think you'd enjoy Div, Grad, Curl and All That. It's in the same sort of informal style of Feynman's Lectures. It's not rigorous like Rudin, but it gives you a goo
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by splat 17y ago
I think thats a good rule of thumb at the very least and it works for me in California.
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by splat 17y ago
I'll agree with your semantics. To me, "beating a game" implies that you can consistently come out ahead over a long period of time. Nevertheless, playing an "unbeatable" game over a short period of time is not necessarily irrational. Al
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by splat 17y ago
A fair coin has a roughly 51% chance of landing with the same side up as it started with. See the paper by Diaconis et al. "Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss."
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by splat 17y ago
I would pick out of the hat once, maybe even twice. The point is that I'm never going to sum over a bunch of negative expectations. I beat the probability of losing down to something negligible, play once, and then quit forever.
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by splat 17y ago
Reminds me of the audit of the home of the chief of the LA Department of Water and Power that discovered that he watered his lawn every day for over a year---even during rainy days.
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by splat 17y ago
Fair enough. The article also claims that the outcome of a coin flip is 50:50, which is also not true.
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by splat 17y ago
I think you're misinterpreting the author's point about roulette. She never claimed that you could profit off of roulette in the long run. You can, however, almost certainly profit off of it in the short run. The strategy she describes h
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by splat 17y ago
It depends strongly on the class. If you have a bad lecturer, I find it a better use of my time to stay in my room and read the textbook.
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by splat 17y ago
Ditto to this. While slacking off during college is not a good idea, working so hard that you burn yourself out is also something to avoid. Believe me, after working on a physics problem for ~20 hours straight it's hard to remember why ex
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by splat 17y ago
But in these tough times, the scammers said, they are relying more on a crucial tool: voodoo. At times, Banjo said, he has traveled six hours to the forest, where a magician sells scam-boosters. I do enjoy the irony.
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by splat 17y ago
McAfee has also written a pretty good open-source introductory economics textbook which can be downloaded here: www.introecon.com
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How Much Will the Post Office Put Up With?(improbable.com)
127 points by splat 17y ago|47 comments
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The Worker's Plea(adliterate.com)
1 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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Researchers find that outcome of a coin flip is not 50-50(thebigmoney.com)
1 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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Why Do We Smoke Cigarettes (1947)(smokingsides.com)
1 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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by splat 17y ago
Depends on what sort of knowledge you're trying to get. If you just want to be able to point out constellations, I would recommend The Stars by H. A. Rey (yes, the same guy who wrote Curious George). It's unique in that it displays the co
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by splat 17y ago
That's a good idea, I'll try that. Thanks!
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by splat 17y ago
As a poor college student I'm currently on a food budget of < $40 per month. I rarely buy anything but bread, bacon, peanut butter, cheese, bananas, eggs, yogurt, and butter. It's a bit monotonous, but I was surprised how quickly I go
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Tales from Orange County's Taco Trucks(ocweekly.com)
5 points by splat 17y ago|1 comments
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The Henry Louis Gates "Teaching Moment"(reason.com)
53 points by splat 17y ago|44 comments
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by splat 17y ago
At over 7:1 (at last check), I think this comment wins the award for "Highest Karma to Character Ratio"!
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by splat 17y ago
Just water throughout the day. I'll have a beer or a cocktail in the evening. On rare occasions, if I'm feeling particularly tired and need to be alert I'll have a soda or coffee.
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The Quirky Genius of the Dos Equis Ad Campaign(slate.com)
50 points by splat 17y ago|35 comments
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by splat 17y ago
Solving this numerically, I get 14414. I used the following line of Mathematica code: For[n=14400, Sum[PDF[BinomialDistribution[n,.51],k],{k,n/2+5,n}] < .99, n++, Null]; Print[n] (I played around with it a little to guess the initial va
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by splat 17y ago
I'm glad you enjoyed my comment! When I wrote it I had no idea it would reach the original author! As a disclaimer, I should first point out that I make no claim to knowing the subject "quite well." Economics is a hobby of mine, but my t
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by splat 17y ago
I'm not sure where Tobiasen gets the idea that the Austrian School is a "major school of economics." This may have been true in the 1930s, but today, at least in the academic world, it's treated (justly or not) as a fringe theory (just loo
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Picking Sides(prospect.org)
1 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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The Economic Failure of the Space Program(businessweek.com)
2 points by splat 17y ago|2 comments

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