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by incremental 15y ago
It confirms with you, no trust required.
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by incremental 15y ago
I'm afraid this is wrong - you shouldn't distinguish between Bb and bB. In this problem, they are not different states, so counting them messes up your probability calculation. Someone had a nice link higher up: http://mikeschiraldi.blogsp
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by incremental 15y ago
"Under your inference, the man wouldnt have mentioned anything unless he had at least one male child. (in which case you can say the GG scenario is gone, but GB BG and BB are equally probable)" No. I'm just assuming he has two children, and
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by incremental 15y ago
So you say: "it is clear why BB, BG, GB, and GG have equal probability in the unrestricted case" The restricted case is just the unrestricted case + one additional bit of information, that is, you're told that GG is not an option. This elim
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by incremental 15y ago
Imagine a similar problem but with red and blue poker chips. Say, for example, that I have a bag and I pull out two chips, one at a time. In this problem, would you still try to distinguish the two identical red poker chips using your logic
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by incremental 15y ago
Since the constraint simply says that at least one child is a boy, we don't need to distinguish between two types of BB. This is a curious misconception, by the way. The typical failure mode I see on these questions is people having difficu
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by incremental 15y ago
For a randomly selected family with two children, there are four possible boy/girl combinations: B B, B G, G B, G G In the first case we are told that the older child is a boy. This leaves only two cases: B B, B G Therefore, there is a 50%
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by incremental 15y ago
Not really a product, though, so that doesn't count as a good example. Obviously a major discovery with high impact, though.
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Where citations come from(xkcd.com)
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by incremental 15y ago
Print edition date.
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IPhone 4S: Anandtech review(anandtech.com)
64 points by incremental 15y ago|14 comments
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by incremental 15y ago
The funny thing is that he is clearly thinking like a computer programmer in his first sentence. I wonder if naive users would generally have better results on first contact with Siri, compared to technical users who try to over-structure t
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by incremental 15y ago
Planck's constant is not the smallest unit of distance. It's not a unit of distance at all. You're thinking of the Planck length. It is indeed proposed that the Planck length is the smallest meaningful length, but this is by no means proved
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Apple's relentless push forward(appcubby.com)
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by incremental 15y ago
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/06/business/la-fi-apple...
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by incremental 15y ago
It can. As CEO, one of his responsibilities was to create an organisation that would endure. Apple itself may be Steve Job's greatest creation. The test of the next 10 years is to see if that is true.
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by incremental 15y ago
Yes, that was part of the multi-tasking model rolled out in iOS 4.
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by incremental 15y ago
The end of the camera industry != no cameras, it really means that standalone cameras are reduced to a niche market serving enthusiasts only. Will that happen? Seems likely, given current trends - phone cameras like the 4S are (nearly?) goo
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How to protect user freedom in an app store world(arstechnica.com)
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by incremental 15y ago
Probably because the Canadian accent is not currently supported - US, UK, Australia, if I remember correctly.
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by incremental 15y ago
Does Google deserve no credit for Android since they bought that? I presume Apple has done some work on Siri since they bought it over a year ago...
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by incremental 15y ago
The iPhone has had voice commands such as "Call x" since 2009. This is something different.
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The case against the Kindle as a low end disruption(asymco.com)
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by incremental 15y ago
I don't really know the details. But consider what open access journals charge per article: http://www.plos.org/journals/pubfees.php This is not cheap, and I'm very glad I didn't need to cover this back when I was publishing papers. If an
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by incremental 15y ago
Ah, my mistake, I see what you're claiming. However, let me ask a more substantive question. You end by stating:"The real issue is that, whatever selection criteria a journal uses, it should make the resulting papers freely available to the
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by incremental 15y ago
Everything PLoS ONE publishes is good because they are less selective than the top tier journals? Seems an extraordinary claim to make.
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A defense of the role played by scientific journals(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)
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Why academic publishing hasn't been disrupted [2009](scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)
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by incremental 15y ago
Nice try, but no - basically, to use your phrasing, there's nothing to detect when Q2 collapses.