Comments | loveandjoy: I can't believe that I won't be here next week. (day 1/7 until Austin)

loveandjoy

I can't believe that I won't be here next week. (day 1/7 until Austin)

Aug 21, 2005 16:18

If you read this before August 27th, I'll be in Harlingen ( Read more... )

i don't find these tag things useful, puzzles, busy, ut

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kkazlowski August 22 2005, 03:39:52 UTC

that puzzle really really bothers me. i mean the answer is that youre supposed to switch to the other door right? but wtffff that seriously doesnt make sense ahhhh T.T cuz like i remember how someone explained it to me once but i realized last time i thought about this puzzle that the explanation was total bs...and meh i just lost

loveandjoy August 22 2005, 03:42:56 UTC

OoOoOoOo
..but you're such a nerrrd! You're supposed to be able to figure it out! (And the reason why it bothers you is 'cause it's counterintuitive.) And damn, I really love my book (the one that I'm reading.. apparently I read). It has so many mathy references.. and even all the chapters are numbered by odd primes. It's so awesome.

kkazlowski August 22 2005, 05:08:30 UTC

i mean it seems like you really should be doing conditional probability...like, ok say you picked door 1, door 2 is revealed to not be it, door 3 is the other one...you REALLY care about

p(door 3 being it | door 2 isnt)

which really ought to be the same as

p(door 1 being it | door 2 isnt)

...i mean meh? the explanation i heard totally doesnt take into account the idea of conditional probability, which is really important...

loveandjoy August 22 2005, 05:34:11 UTC

yeah I'd think that it'd take into account the conditional probability as well ('cause the chance that the car is behind the door that you chose isn't 1/2, like most people would think)

kkazlowski August 22 2005, 05:53:23 UTC

why isnt it 1/2? i dont get that

loveandjoy August 22 2005, 07:01:13 UTC

I'd explain it to you, but you're_not_there.

kkazlowski August 22 2005, 16:07:17 UTC

dot dot dot you can still explain it. just type it up. and blah i would be here if you hadnt just signed off and left for like 40 mins, sigh.

loveandjoy August 22 2005, 19:44:07 UTC

You would?

.. and I thought it was more like 20.

kkazlowski August 22 2005, 23:10:20 UTC

hm no way it was more like 20...cuz after you signed off i sat around thinking you might come back, and then did some other stuff, then went to bed...

loveandjoy August 22 2005, 23:17:07 UTC

:|
well.. oopsie.. I thought I was gonna come back too.. and I did! (tho I guess after 40 minutes, you might not think that)

kkazlowski August 22 2005, 23:27:52 UTC

well i had no idea...youre so odd you could just leave and...yeah. youre odd

loveandjoy August 22 2005, 23:36:37 UTC

meh.. that was sort've on accident (the leaving).. meh.. I'm not that odd..

kkazlowski August 23 2005, 00:09:36 UTC

oh well gg. and hfs you are THAT odd

loveandjoy August 23 2005, 05:23:50 UTC

.. maybe it's an Oakridge thing (to think me odd)
I still like Ben's "i've never evaluated you mod 2".

Oh yeah, and that other time when you said that it had been days before I'd gotten on AIM, you were right.. well, not technically, 'cause I'd gotten on AIM, but I'd realized that it had been exactly 1 week since the last time that I'd talked to you on AIM.

kkazlowski August 23 2005, 05:26:19 UTC

umm ok i think everyone should think youre odd.

wooow yeah see it had been a while o_O

loveandjoy August 23 2005, 05:29:03 UTC

Okay, but see, I was online the whole time.. you just thought that I wasn't 'cause I'd get on before you'd get up.

Um.. just you and Josh. .. 'cause you 2 are odd.

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