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An Open Call For Suggestions
December 4th, 2009Back in the day (which is my fancy way of saying “I don’t know when”) there was a custom of naming ones house. People would call their house “Treetops” or “Sandfields”. I always assumed this was only done for palatial manors, but recently found out that even folks in New Jersey would give names to [...]
Help Me Understand What I’m Doing Wrong (The Monty Hall Problem)
April 6th, 2009First, if you don’t know the Monty Hall problem already, go ahead and skip this problem. It’s really a question aimed at people who know the “correct” answer, which is nonintuitive. Ok, so I heard about the Monty Hall problem a long time ago. At the time, I made the same, presumably wrong, guess that [...]
