Recent content by aquaregia

Yeah, people are stupid. First of all it makes no sense to say "hes greedy", in this situation, since he is simply accepting an offer. He is apparently good, so the team offered him the money. So, do these people actually think that someone would refuse money for no apparent reason? Do they...

Is what I said just way off?

I have read some stuff about how a much greater portion of society has parasites in their intestines than is normally assumed. Does anyone know what foods are known to contain lots parasites or if they mainly contracted when people touch soil or fecal matter and then touch their mouth? Also...

I will make it simpler: 1. If a difference equation is basically the same as a loop in a computer program, then can a difference equation be used to find out the final value that a loop will return when it has finished? 2. Can you solve a difference equation with less steps than it takes...

I suggest you go to the store and buy a lottery ticket every day with your last $100, because if you win a million then all your problems will be solved and you can do anything you want. Or get a job as a package handeler. I did, and it was such hard physical work that I realized that...

I have read some papers where they say they are using a computational approach to modeling something complicated, like a simplified stock market or something, and they usually say that one of the reasons they are using a computational approach is becuase it would be "very difficult" to come up...

Well, you would take into account ALL things that were relevant to that calculation, that means all the moons gravity, that means the gravity caused by a raindrop falling on Jupiter, everything. How can a formula be less accurate than a calculator? A formula tells you what it is by definition...

When I was first learning programming I was surprised that computers only hold numbers to 32 or 64 bits of precision (sometimes more). What I am wondering is to what precision does stuff in the universe happen? For example: if you had a super slow motion microscope and could zoom into a...

This was recently done with the Roadrunner supercomputer. The Roadrunner has something like 12,000 PS3 chips and 6,000 other chips in it. I think there are something like 10 million PS3s sold. There are at least 50 computers for every PS3, so just doing some quick math, it should be possible...

You've probably heard about the thing where scientists simulated 10 seconds of half of a mouses brain with a supercomputer. Does anyone know how fast of a computer it would take to simulate an ants brain? On a related question, let's say you wanted to simulate 1 cubic milimeter of the real...

Thanks for the answers, I found some stuff that answers this question: http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~duongt/mwe/zero/zero.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely

If you actually want to get better I would discourage the self-study option. I my expirience self-study rarely works especially when it comes to math. Why? 1. You tend to focus on the stuff your already good at, and skip the stuff that forces you to work at for a while. 2. You feel like...

That sounds reasonable, but what about the 1 in 221 times when you get AA, and you know you have the best hand, could it be possible that they would give all of their winnings back? It seems kind of similar to if you bet $9,998 that an event with a 1/9999 probability of happening would not...

So what would be an example of a strategy that I could use to exploit someone who was playing according to pot odds? Wouldn't that already be calculated in, for example you know that every so often your opponent will have a better flush draw and therefore your EV is slightly less.

But there is some exact single instant when the button is finally pressed (at least in a non-quantum mathematical universe), right? Or say we were talking about a perfect mathematical sphere getting dropped onto a perfect plane. There would be some exact instant when the sphere first touched...