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jedishrfu replied to the thread Undergrad Odd coincidence: two people with same name living on the same street.I had an eerie experience when I moved to Poughkeepsie, NY, to start a new job. My manager's name was Carl M. I was out in my yard... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Undergrad Odd coincidence: two people with same name living on the same street.There are a couple of semi-related variations of this problem. —- The amazing Randy gave a class on the validity of astrological...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Undergrad Odd coincidence: two people with same name living on the same street.Interesting, let's hope your cousin wasn't pranking you, knowing your math background.
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Undergrad Odd coincidence: two people with same name living on the same street.I based it on the top twenty names in the US in the 1980s. The top name, Smith, was 1%, the top ten names covered 6-7%, and the top 100...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Undergrad Odd coincidence: two people with same name living on the same street.Wouldn't this be solved in the same manner as the birthday problem? You know the one where you're at a party of 20 guests, and the...
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jedishrfu reacted to renormalize's post in the thread High School Example of a model for a function with
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I'm unaware of practical examples of your function:$$f_{k}\left(x\right)\equiv x^{k/x}$$but a transformation of that... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread High School Example of a model for a function.Have you done any googling to find examples?
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jedishrfu replied to the thread High School Example of a model for a function.Many optimization problems in business engineering and science exhibit the behavior described by this function They start with a...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread History History of Barbie.I still have a Gumby. He injured his hand awhile back and it's hard to fix. The foam material aged over 60 years or so that it crumbles...
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I never had a Barbie, nor a Ken. Nor a GI Joe to boss them around. Instead had a Gumby and Pokey.
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jedishrfu replied to the thread History History of Barbie.Here's a YouTube video on the History of Barbie:
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I am actually surprised that governments don’t generally use Linux for security reasons. A government should worry that a commercial...
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I was working at the UK's Ministry of Defence just over 10 years ago when they rolled out Office 365. This involved the MOD making...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread France to ditch Windows for Linux.Yes, I found that to be true, too. At work, all Mac users were forced to switch to Windows laptops because we had a firewall setup...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Support PF: Buy on Amazon.com from here.Update, so I checked, and it’s known as an affiliate link, and it’s a tracking ID attached to your purchase. You don’t have to buy...