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go back to maingo to old version

April 03, 2006 -- 6:46 PM
posted by anonymous

yeah, I can.

April 03, 2006 -- 6:44 PM
posted by Par

If I delete a broken post that no one attached their name to, can anyone complain?

April 03, 2006 -- 6:00 PM
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April 03, 2006 -- 5:36 PM
posted by Par

Some of you may know the Monty Hall/Let's Make a Deal probability problem (it was mentioned in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time). If not, here's the story:

You are presented with three identical doors. Behind one of them is a car and behind the other two are goats. You want the car. Monty Hall tells you to choose one of the doors. Regardless of which door you choose, at least one of the two remaining doors will have a goat behind it. Monty Hall, who knows where the car is, then opens one of the doors that has a goat behind it. He then gives you the option of either sticking with the first door you chose, or switching your choice to the other unopened door.

Question: What should you do? Should you stay where you are? Switch? Does it make a difference?
There are two common answers to the question, but the one that most people try is demonstrably wrong. I just had no idea how much the common person's insistence on their answer annoyed mathematicians. (I won't write the answer here; just click on the link to get the explanation.) It's an interesting problem, though. The mathematician in question tries to clarify the question by proposing it this way:
Suppose you had 100 doors. The doors conceal one car and 99 goats. You choose door number one. Monty Hall then opens 98 goat-bearing doors.

I'm curious, though. If you were really insistent, I'm not sure that the rephrasing would help at all. Perhaps someone could prove me wrong...

April 03, 2006 -- 2:23 PM
posted by nobody knows my face

ah yes, the infamous yellow river.

PS: what's my online banking password? I forget.

April 03, 2006 -- 12:03 PM
posted by edo

What, no jokes about "Fruit Explosion" muffins?

April 03, 2006 -- 11:13 AM
posted by Par

April 02, 2006 -- 10:27 PM
posted by eric

yet another adolescent summer:
new .moneen.
If Tragedy's Appeal.....(myspace download) | Don't Ever tell Locke what he can't do (link to stream)
and i'm coming around to the new Thursday too

April 02, 2006 -- 7:49 PM
posted by eric

for those of you who don't have myspace, a bulletin from Matt Lissass

I'm doing a funny ha-ha set on wednesday the 5th at the Comic Strip in West Ed. If you're interested, let me know, I'll get you some comp. tix. It promises to be the best show ever held on that day in this town.

Matt

April 02, 2006 -- 12:04 PM
posted by alison

haha, on another note, apparently Shuyler Jansen's hobotron is "unclassifiable" according to the iTunes musical genre classification system... haven't had that one yet. I wonder what else will come up like that...

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