squeakynick

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by squeakynick 14y ago
I am the article author. Thank you to the numerous people who took to time to email me and correct me about a definition. In this article, I refer to the entire root of a domain name e.g. Amazon.com as the TLD. I made a mistake, it is just
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by squeakynick 14y ago
I get what you are saying, but you can only pick one square to fire on next. Knowing the exact probability of every square left (differnetiating between white and almost white), does not help you if, on each move, you take the square wit
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by squeakynick 14y ago
Actually it does take this into account (in a roundabout way). After two hits on the last ship it does know orientation of the ship. It gets this information by applying a massive weighting to the locations where the ship could be that p
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Battleship (Not the movie) - An analysis of strategies used to play the game(datagenetics.com)
9 points by squeakynick 14y ago|5 comments
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A tribute to Martin Gardner (2 years on): Counterintuitive Conundrums(datagenetics.com)
3 points by squeakynick 14y ago|0 comments
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What happens if you shrink the Earth to the size of a tennis ball?(datagenetics.com)
68 points by squeakynick 14y ago|19 comments
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by squeakynick 15y ago
Yes, I do! They are nothing more fancy than Excel graphs. The other illustrations were made in Publisher.
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Chance of rolling a Yahtzee is 4.6029% (Markov Chain analysis)(datagenetics.com)
2 points by squeakynick 15y ago|3 comments
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by squeakynick 15y ago
No, we should still go for the letter with the highest frequency. If we get a hit, it's not just the presence, or not, of the letter, we learn both the number of hits, and the positions of these hits. These are incredibly valuable pieces o
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by squeakynick 15y ago
Good comments. Being paranoid, I double checked the database I used! Neither 'qi' nor 'za' are in the database I used. I'm not arguing that they are, or are not, words. I'm just saying that they were not in the dictionaty file I used :)
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Don't try to defraud a mathematician (Benford's Law)(datagenetics.com)
4 points by squeakynick 15y ago|0 comments
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Analysis of all .com domain names(datagenetics.com)
4 points by squeakynick 15y ago|1 comments
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by squeakynick 15y ago
Cool