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12 Aug 09

GeoGebra

  • GeoGebra is teh awesome. - leingang on 2009-08-12
20 Jul 09

Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices

  • A decade later, in 2002, a large manufacturer of card-shuffling machines for casinos summoned Diaconis to determine whether their new automated shufflers truly randomized the deck. (They didn't.)
17 Jul 09

News: A Gripe Session at Blackboard - Inside Higher Ed

  • asks for root level access to his database
    • this sounds like a FERPA violation to me. Tech support should have methods built in which don't require back door access - on 2009-07-17
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"Introduction to Probability" in Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)

  • Read closely, you may recognize some of the problems from our course. It's great to have an open-source probability book out there. They do, however, focus a lot on programming and simulation. - leingang on 2009-07-17
14 Jul 09

Who's Counting?: Probability and Risk in the News - ABC News

  • John Allen Paulos is a well-published mathematics author. He wrote Innumeracy and several sequels. - leingang on 2009-07-14
12 Jul 09

Live Scoreboard | FanGraphs Baseball

  • This is very cool. It's an example of a Markov process, which we won't do much of but you can find a chapter on in the book. - leingang on 2009-07-12

Probability and Poker

  • There is some overlap here since the straight flush starting at 10 is the same as the royal flush. So strictly there are 36 straight flushes (4 × 9) if we don't count the royal flush. The probability of getting a straight flush then is 36/2,598,960 = 0.00001385
06 Jul 09

The Mathematics of Magic: The Gathering

  • Some cards were printed before the research and development team realized they were overpowered. Hence, the cards are banned from deck construction.

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    The play is directed by Vicky Vatcher, itinerant drama lecturer at local universities, and played by four outstanding local actors: Steve Leanaghan, Clive Linthorne, Ellis Wells and Amie Higgs. They whizz through more than 20 roles in just under 90 minutes.











    Rebel Yelp was developed through the Rondo Writers Group whose annual evenings of short plays have been continuously successful.









    Tickets cost £10, with concessions available, from Bath Festivals box office on 01225 463362. For more information visit www.rebelyelp.com.

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