tags: Four Yorkshiremen, humor, funny, silly, weird, offbeat, Monty Python, streaming video
Here's a brief film clip of the Monty Python crew performing Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Some people have it so bad ..
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Here is an interesting variation on the Monty Hall problem. For now I will simply present it cold, without indicating the context of where I saw it. Feel free to leave your proposed solutions in the comments. Everything from vague intuitions to hard-core Bayesian analysis is welcome.
Sorry for the sporadic blogging. For the past week I've been working on the Progressive Monty Hall problem, and it has proven to be considerably more complicated than I at first realized. I had expected to polish it off with a few hours work.
tags: Monty Python meets Darth Vader, humor,
Speaking of the Monty Hall problem, I recently came across this terrific essay (PDF format), by Jeffrey Rosenthal, a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto.
That's nothing. We yoosta live in an open-top skip on th'edge o'th' rubbish tip, wi' only a torn net furra roof: http://www.gruts.com/archive/2005/09/03a/
Now that I am getting (much) older - I was not young when this sketch first aired - I find myself often tempted to tell "uphill in the snow backwards both ways with no shoes" stories about my early days experiences of computing.
Don't encourage me.
And thanks for the link.
For some reason in the early part of this I was reminded of Steptoe and Son, very different comedy but I guess the topic reminded me of it.