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LLMs and AIs have a bad reputation at PF, and I share this opinion. I have seen too much nonsense they produced, and too many... -
BWV replied to the thread AlphaEvolve - The Future of Math?.Here is a link to a podcast from last summer with more background info
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BWV replied to the thread Extremely Weird Music.Harry used a 43 tone scale for his custom built instruments here
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BWV replied to the thread Extremely Weird Music.
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BWV replied to the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem.To put it another way, the contestant is presented with ##\{ \frac{1}{3},\frac{1}{3},\frac{1}{3} \}## but before a choice is made, the...
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BWV reacted to Dale's post in the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem with
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Another way to show that this is a false claim is to directly calculate the amount of information entropy before and after opening the... -
BWV replied to the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem.Agree with this If the host and the player have the same info at the same time, then the game cant depend on the host's knowledge
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BWV reacted to Ibix's post in the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem with Like.
Note that your modified game is only the same as the normal one if this "awkward situation" is dealt with somehow - perhaps re-playing...
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BWV replied to the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem.This has been beat to death, but thought I would chime in that it actually does not matter whether the host knows what door the car is...
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BWV reacted to DennisN's post in the thread I am writing a SciFi story but I don't like Rayguns with Like.
I was about to post that too. :smile: By the way, here are two of the most hilarious weapons in fiction (computer games): 1. BFG9000...
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BWV replied to the thread I am writing a SciFi story but I don't like Rayguns.the BFG 9000 was great but there were never enough plasma cells to use it much. I do remember hacking the double barrel shotgun to...
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BWV reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread I Midpoint(s) of the unbounded number line with
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I think this is a good example of how mathematics works. You have to define the terms you use precisely. If we assume "midpoint"... -
BWV replied to the thread I Midpoint(s) of the unbounded number line.does midpoint = median? a standard normal distribution has a median of zero and its range is (−∞,+∞) but does that mean you have to...
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BWV replied to the thread I When are Markov Matrices also Martingales?.Risk neutral probabilities are martingales but <> 0.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-neutral_measure Can arbitrarily create a...
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BWV reacted to Hornbein's post in the thread Music Who is your favorite Jazz musician and what is your favorite song? with Like.