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PeroK replied to the thread Coulomb's force vs the Lorentz force.What happens if the speed of both beams is zero, or approximately zero? -
PeroK replied to the thread Enthusiastic Physics Learner.There are also bona fide undergraduate lectures online. MIT, for example, has a whole range - and not just physics and maths.
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I am retired with a scientific background in Mathematics and Physics though I quit Academia after graduation. Recently, my interest has...
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The paper is silly, to put it mildly. The crux of their argument is that the set of axioms is arithmetically expressive and therefore...
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I do not see anything in their argument that actually relies on the topic being quantum gravity. They could have written a paper...
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PeroK reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem with
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Yup. That's exactly what happened to me. The process of writing the program forces you to untangle and define the logic. By the time I... -
PeroK replied to the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem.I think the answer is quite subtle. As Dave says: Then you have to sit down and calculate. I.e. analyse the possible outcomes and...
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PeroK reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem with Like.
The naive analyst might wonder why you have it changing to ##\{ \frac{1}{3},0,\frac{2}{3} \}## and not ##\{ \frac{1}{2},0,\frac{1}{2}...
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PeroK reacted to BWV's post in the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem with
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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... -
PeroK replied to the thread Beware Fake History.Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, as a rival to Wikipedia, which will be his own version of the truth! Which is very much my point...
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PeroK replied to the thread Beware Fake History.I believe we are not there yet, but not enough people or organisations are prepared to fight the post-truth narrative. I openly admit...
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PeroK replied to the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem.I imagine that takes us out of the realm of elementary probability theory into game theory.
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PeroK reacted to Ibix's post in the thread I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem with Informative.
I believe that in the actual game show Monty had options other than "open a door and offer a switch", and was a skilled cold reader who...
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PeroK replied to the thread Beware Fake History.I know we have to avoid specific politics on here, but AI is developing at a time when politics generally is losing all sense of truth...
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Youtube now sports history that is entirely fictional. An example is this. It is easy to detect because the story isn't believable...
