Back to Back Statistics
Two fans in Dodger stadium caught back to back fouls during a Mets game (and, almost as importantly, the Dodgers lost, woohoo!)...Posted on May 8, 2008 2:44 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
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ArXiv on Your iPhone
For those interested in accessing the arXiv on your iPhone, here is a web based iPhone page:http://arxiv.mobi. Sweet! This has been on my list of things to do, and now I can cross it off without having to do it...Posted on April 15, 2008 11:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Der Took Our Science N Engineering Jerbs!
Whatever you do, Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Mary America, make sure to tell everyone you know not to go into science and engineering! You see those who major in science and engineering are certain to not get jobs, because,...Posted on April 8, 2008 7:52 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Monte Hall and Cognitive Dissonance
Did the Monte Hall problem, trip up a huge number of psychologists? So claims this New York Times article. For a good detailed explanation see here. For even more detail see the actual paper....Posted on April 8, 2008 12:27 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
3.14159265 is Approximately 1
Happy Talk like a physicist day, Happy Pi day, and Happy birthday dear uncle Albert....Posted on March 14, 2008 11:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Probability Intuition
Last quarter I taught discrete math. One component of the class was to cover some basic probability theory. On one of the homeworks we asked the following two questions about random five card poker hands:Given that the hand contains an...Posted on January 2, 2008 1:20 PM • 99 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Is This a Mathematica Bug?
Miguel Pais points to an interesting behavior of Mathematica, where he plots the function which is the square of the square root of x. Now, if the domain of x is taken to be complex numbers, Mathematica's behavior seems to...Posted on December 29, 2007 1:56 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Off the Queue and Into the Cranium
Books off the queue and lodge securely somewhere behind my eyes: "A Mathematician's Apology" by G.H. Hardy and "A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation" by Richard Bookstaber...Posted on December 3, 2007 12:15 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Proof by Logical Exhaustion
Uncertain Chad asks "What's your favorite dubious proof technique?" I just don't have one dubious proof technique: I have an entire book of dubious proof techniques! Seriously, I have a book where I write them all down....Posted on November 15, 2007 8:10 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
