I have always *hated* statistics and probability, and here is an example of why: I have a coin. I flip it 9 times, and I get heads 9 times in a row. According to the probability of independent events, the 10th flip has a 50% chance of being heads again, because previous events don’t affect …
Read more »Tonight the results of the first Intro to AI class homework were posted, and I got 100%! I know, it’s a little lame to be excited about getting a good score in a 200 level class in a subject I already have a degree in, but it’s comforting to know that the academic parts of …
Read more »I came across this article on cnn.com today, and while normally a lot of the articles on cnn.com seem to be “here are some words for you to consume,” this one actually was somewhat interesting to me: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/07/rushkoff.jobs.obsolete/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 I read somewhere else that we’re moving toward a “gig economy” and I think that may be …
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