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It looks like the correct strategy can be inferred with 15-20 observations per strategy with greater than 0.95 probability. Here is a...

The player selects one door of three. That selected door comes with a frozen probability attached, of 33% that it will win. Then one...

This sounds similar to a problem I encounter sometimes. When I do a find for text in a document and the text it finds has no...

I "liked" a post on Facebook earlier today that compared the computing power of a Cray-2 supercomputer from the 1980s to a current...

I thought, what if a Bayesian just watched the show and wanted to figure out the best strategy empirically. How many contests would they...

It would be interesting if a mathematical Finitist could come and explain their position in a clear and coherent way. I suspect most...

......Or to put it another way, after all these years, Achilles has apparently still not quite caught up to the tortoise.

There are many uses of "unbounded" N, where f(N)=x will be exact at some unknown large N. That is very different from a convergence that...

Perhaps I am missing something, but I am not sure that every occurrence of infinity can be replaced by "without bound". For example...

Another reason I find infinity fundamental is that, if we want to work with Hilbert spaces of functions, infinity seems unavoidable. A...

Chuck Norris did it twice. He failed at his third attempt earlier this year. R.I.P.

If your theory of reality is limited by computer processor speed, you need to think hard about what is real. If that is true, how was...

Somewhat off topic to the thread, but just to close the loop on this: in our cosmological models the *observable* universe is finite due...

Well, that is not my objection but of those who reject infinity in math. They seem to conflate our limits with math's limits.

I don't understand why is infinity a problem. Sure, it is not intuitive and sometimes it complicates things. But to negate the infinity...