What are you watching on Youtube, right now? Part IV

[Borachio]

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[Kyriakos]

^That was a cool late 90s Channel #4 show...

 

[Borachio]

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[Kyriakos]

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[FriendlyFire]

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[Mechanicalsalvation]

^^ Interesting I will be in Tokio next week. While now in Kyoto I usually spend close to a 1000 yen for lunch. I guess one needs to know the proper places where to go...

 

[Borachio]

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[Kyriakos]

^ That Russel Bland

 

[Borachio]

Oh. I thought he was quite coherent, there.

Individualism... motor cars... blah de blah blah blah.

 

[Kyriakos]

Oh. I thought he was quite coherent, there.

Individualism... motor cars... blah de blah blah blah.

Yes. I listened to the clip only after saying the unapologetic and hurtful sentence.....

Indeed i expected much worse

But i also noted Vorderman in that video. Eh..

 

[Borachio]

Wut? Carol Vorderman's in it?

Thankfully I didn't notice her!

 

[classical_hero]

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[Loppan Torkel]

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A cliffhanger ending..

 

[Domen]

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[Borachio]

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A cliffhanger ending..

Switch! Switch! Switch!

It's the Monty goat problem.

 

[warpus]

Warning: Some unsavoury language


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[Terxpahseyton]

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A cliffhanger ending..

I don't understand. Why does staying with her first choice mean two ways to die and switching only one? It seems blatantly obvious to me that the chance is 50:50 in either case after the third option was ruled out.

 

[Borachio]

^That's what most people think on first encountering the problem.

But it isn't true.

"By opening his door, Monty is saying to the contestant 'There are two doors you did not choose, and the probability that the prize is behind one of them is 2/3. I'll help you by using my knowledge of where the prize is to open one of those two doors to show you that it does not hide the prize. You can now take advantage of this additional information. Your choice of door A has a chance of 1 in 3 of being the winner. I have not changed that. But by eliminating door C, I have shown you that the probability that door B hides the prize is 2 in 3.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Simple_solutions

A lot of people will argue about it, though, till they're blue in the face.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Posted before finished thinking about it

 

[Borachio]

It's a good problem, isn't it? I'm not sure I can explain it any better than wiki, though.