Comments for machine-envy http://www.machine-envy.com/blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:16:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 Comment on chimpy: MailChimp API for python by seamless pipe http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2008/09/21/chimpy-mailchimp-api-for-python/comment-page-1/#comment-64844 seamless pipe Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:16:17 +0000 http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/?p=206#comment-64844 wow.so interesting.thanks for your share. wow.so interesting.thanks for your share.

]]> Comment on Deal Or No Deal vs Monty Hall by Kyoufu http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2006/12/26/deal-or-no-deal-vs-monty-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-64700 Kyoufu Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:45:39 +0000 http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2006/12/26/deal-or-no-deal-vs-monty-hall/#comment-64700 OP is right. Difference is simple, in MH problem you actually still have 3 doors to choose from. The door your shown isn't a choice - you can never lose, you didn't make this choice you were simply shown what was behind a door. In DOND when you're down to 3 boxes, you still have that 33% chance of losing the "winning" case before you get to two cases. Its easier to consider the chance that you are wrong: in MH you have a 66% chance of being wrong initially. When MH shows you that information, you know that 66% of the time you were going to be wrong. That 66% is now represented by the one remaining unopened box. In the same scenario but with DOND you also have a 66% chance of being wrong. Unfortunately you must now guess again, and have a 33% chance THIS guess will be wrong as well - the host doesn't spot you a freebie. So you guess randomly, 33% of the time you lose and open the 1 mil w/ 3 cases to go. If u guess correctly u had a 1/3 chance you were initially right, 2/3 chance you were wrong (-1/3 from your latest guess) so 1/3 chance u were right 1/3 chance u were wrong. However only two cases left, so 1/2 right or wrong. AKA 50% chance whether u swap or not. OP is right. Difference is simple, in MH problem you actually still have 3 doors to choose from. The door your shown isn’t a choice – you can never lose, you didn’t make this choice you were simply shown what was behind a door. In DOND when you’re down to 3 boxes, you still have that 33% chance of losing the “winning” case before you get to two cases.

Its easier to consider the chance that you are wrong: in MH you have a 66% chance of being wrong initially. When MH shows you that information, you know that 66% of the time you were going to be wrong. That 66% is now represented by the one remaining unopened box.

In the same scenario but with DOND you also have a 66% chance of being wrong. Unfortunately you must now guess again, and have a 33% chance THIS guess will be wrong as well – the host doesn’t spot you a freebie. So you guess randomly, 33% of the time you lose and open the 1 mil w/ 3 cases to go.

If u guess correctly u had a 1/3 chance you were initially right, 2/3 chance you were wrong (-1/3 from your latest guess) so 1/3 chance u were right 1/3 chance u were wrong. However only two cases left, so 1/2 right or wrong. AKA 50% chance whether u swap or not.

]]> Comment on Howto: pyjamas + pylons + json by nande http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2006/12/10/howto-pyjamas-pylons-json/comment-page-1/#comment-64359 nande Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:16:49 +0000 http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/2006/12/10/howto-pyjamas-pylons-json/#comment-64359 you lack the part where you actually use the jsonproxy you lack the part where you actually use the jsonproxy

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