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I was a bold teenager who had flashes of insight. I am now a retired mathematician who is not as fast but still original.

It isn't paradoxical if you have ever boiled sap to make maple syrup. The raw sap is 2 or 3 percent sugar, depending on the tree. If...

It is relevant because it changes the conditional probabilities and the amount of information received. There is still some information...

It changes the probabilities because it changes the relative frequencies, which one can calculate. In other words, you play the game...

Someone should have told him that AI is not capable of replacing humans! Hasn't he read the PF Insights on this?

Yesterday, Thursday, Jack Dorsey, CEO of financial Tech company Block, is releasing 4000 persons from its 10,500 workforce. He said on...

That argument fits the Monty Hall game, as generally understood. But, there are alternative ways to play where that argument fails...

Duvall won an Oscar for best actor in a leading role in Tender Mercies (1983). Strangely, the other nominees were all British. Even...

I would be interested the methodology of the experiment. I suspect many of the subjects are not literally failing to understand the...

It's only paradoxical if you insist on manipulating numbers without thining about what the numbers mean. There was a viral problem in...

It seems paradoxical when one erroneously translates the "1% decrease in water content" as "1% of water evaporates." If 100 kg potatoes...

Intensity is the amount of power per unit area. Frequency in classical EM relates to the speed of oscillation of the electric and...

There is no such thing as a photon in classical EM. It's not just that the frequency of the light is the key factor. The dislocated...

It could be called an asteroid belt.

Shouldn't seatbelts be mandatory when travelling by asteroid?