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- Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: The Strange Places on the Boarderland.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3646
- Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:54 am
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: How's everyone enjoying their "Global Warming"?
- Replies: 1509
- Views: 195404
This has probably been mentioned before but what if the news about climate change had been presented without being a plank in the ambition of a political group or the stigma of extreme hyper political partisanship attached? A rare case, which has become oddly even more rare in a forum supposedly de...
- Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:12 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Astronomy's 50 Weirdest Objects
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6532
- Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:16 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
Vraith, you may have a godlike and near instant understanding of all aspects of maths... ...but when it comes to perfectly clear and easily understood explanation (given the freely acknowledged limited ability of the enquirer), at least in this example WF has from my POV run absolute rings round yo...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 2:53 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
Hats off to you WF... that is beautifully, succinctly and elegantly put. Much respect. I don't want to argue that WF is wrong, nor that the explanation isn't succinct. Just that there is a supplement, the same thing I've returned to. It's this: even IF you make the mistaken assumption WF is talking...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:59 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Flying Monks!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4818
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Entropy Revisited
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3802
I've never thought that sounded particularly chaotic...rather the opposite in fact. :D --A You're not the only one...it's bugged even the people who matter such that a growing number of papers and texts are weeding out/disentangling entropy from order/disorder. [[randomly ran across that tidbit som...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
TF: reasonably close/similar thought I woke up with, and seems to get at the same point similar way, but less words: Original setup exact. Before choosing, does anyone think the odds of picking the x or 2x are anything but equal? [[I don't think anyone's argued that]]. Now you choose one. Does anyo...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:12 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:36 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 1:59 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
Hashi, I *think* by implication you just got compared to a flat-earther, who needs his state of mind correcting... WF, that is a succinct way of putting things, but I don't think it's any less confusing... and trust me, I am (or at least was) your poster child for confusion here. On the first...tha...
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:43 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
If the math is easy, then show us your math. I already did. At least twice. The chances are 50/50 on your first pick, and they remain 50/50 no matter how many times you switch, from none to infinity. Period. No, they aren't psychological in the same way as a chemical imbalance or brain damage. I ne...
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
PS I use CAPS above solely in an attempt to increase clarity for any reader as bamboozled as I certainly was. Heh...that doesn't bother me at all, though I know some people are bothered by such. It's bad form, of course, in most writing to use caps/italics/underlines/bold/etc. etc. etc. with rare e...
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:29 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
Vraith, speak for yourself - the maths isn't easy. Well, okay it is, but it's counterintuitive... maybe not for everyone, but I'd bet for the majority. The bald, inalienable and extremely persuasively misleading fact is that you absolutely know that the envelope opposite you holds either half or do...
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Return of the two envelope paradox
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23095
Heh...the real problem with the original problem is that there is no paradox, it isn't a math problem. The math doesn't change at all...it's 50/50 before you choose, it's 50/50 when you choose one, it's 50/50 if you switch, or if you don't. The apparent paradox/strategy is a psychology/values probl...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:33 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Random Science News Thread
- Replies: 306
- Views: 132540
Well, this could be cool--- A way to deal with many [not all obviously] of the problems people worry about with Genetic Mods, but RNA instead of DNA. It doesn't change them, just makes them work better/correctly. [sorta] Could cure a bunch of illnesses by HAH! KILLING THE MESSENGER!! [not exactly t...
- Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Has Science Already Answered.......
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10066
0=1 This is actually a true statement if you define a group where the additive identity and the multiplicative identity are the same element. Of course, the way that I/we did it is totally not math, but can trick people with mathiness. Mathematics is much stranger than many think. I run across thin...