January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Lazy Sunday
Things I did today:
Played with my son.
Made potato latkes for lunch, served with yogurt.
Revised a journal paper.
Unclogged the bathtub drain.
Fixed the leaking toilet.
Went for a run.
Made apricot mushroom couscous w/ fried oysters for dinner.
Watched a little TV.
Revised the same journal paper.
September 2011
3 posts
Partly cloudy with an (infinitesimal) chance of...
According to NASA, there is a 1 in 3200 chance that somebody will be hit by a satellite on Friday. So what is the probability that an individual person (for example, you) will be hit?
p(somebody is hit) = 1/3200
p(nobody is hit) = 3199/3200
Assuming that the each individual has an equal chance of being hit (and such events are independent),
p(nobody is hit) = p(you’re not...
August 2011
7 posts
July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
8 posts
May 2011
5 posts
April 2011
6 posts
The annual federal budget is $3.5 trillion. So for each day that we close the government, we save $9.6 billion! Throw in some half days and we’re on our way to a balanced budget.
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
2 posts
