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Why did Coach Schiano bench Josh Freeman?
To save his own job as head coach, that’s why. For those of you who are Bucs fans, do you agree with prior probability that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost their first two games this season, not because of their quarterback, … Continue reading
Who’s the douche? Gomez or McCann?
Major League Baseball suspended Carlos Gomez for one game for his role in this altercation. Why wasn’t Brian McCann suspended? (Hat tip to Floyd “Money” Mayweather for the video link.)
About 1 in 157 Americans are in prison
According to Google search, China’s population in 2012 was four times larger than the USA’s 2012 populuation: 1.315 billion to 314 million, and yet, according to this damning report by the Pew Center on the States, One in 100: Behind … Continue reading
What would you do with $625,000?
This is the amount of cash you would have won if you had received a (no-strings-attached!) “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. (Yesterday, the MacArthur Foundation named this year’s Genius Grant winners, including a writer (Donald Antrum), an economist (Colin Camerer), a … Continue reading
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What is the optimal strategy for finding a parking space?
Presh Talwalkar, who has created one of the best blogs on mathematics and game theory on the web (Mind Your Decisions), recently wrote up this blog post on parking space strategy. It includes this interesting excerpt from the book Traffic: Why … Continue reading
La sonrisa de Adys Ann … Baby Adys Ann’s smile
Our beautiful baby daughter was born seven weeks ago on this day. For the past seven weeks prior probability has tried to capture her smile on film, taking thousands of pictures of her night and day to no avail … … Continue reading
Why does “originalism” refuse to die?
According to Wikipedia, “originalism” is a theory of interpretation that tries to discover the original meaning or original intent of the Constitution. But the main problem with this theory is that the framers of the Constitution themselves did not agree on … Continue reading
The New Yorker asks, “How evil should a video game allow you to be?”
Yesterday, the online version of The New Yorker published a thought-provoking essay by Simon Parker titled “How evil should a video game allow you to be?” Here are two excerpts: A 2011 Supreme Court ruling recognized that video games, like other forms of … Continue reading
A mathematician looks at voting
What is the best way of aggregating the preferences of voters in an election? What weight should be assigned to a voter’s second- or third-choice? Check out Dan Saari’s lecture on voting rules to find out.
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Tagged Aggregation of Preferences, Don Saari, Elections, voting rules
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Farah Goes Bang
This fascinating and funny film will be screened at the SunTrust Auditorium in Rollins College at 8:00 PM tonight (9/19). Go watch it!
