This post first appeared sometime before 2012, but I lost the original date due to the hacking. If you are a gambler, you’ll be delighted to learn that there is a way […]
Dutch Book: Or, How to Gamble
Classic Posts
Classic Articles There is over twenty years worth of material on the blog on wide-ranging subjects. First stop is the category drop-down menu, to the right on large screens and at the […]
Probability’s Empirical Bias
Bit of logic (a favorite example) from our teacher Lewis Carroll: given “All cats understand French and that some chickens are cats”, what can we say about the proposition “Some chickens understand […]
Paddy Power’s Pope Predictions—Update
Update See below for main update. The odds of Father Dougal Maguire (Craggy Island) being the next Pope are 1,000 to 1. You may say this is small, but it’s orders of […]
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