In Nevada, Carson City, the former maximum-security lockdown unit known as Unit 7, "a prison within a prison," had some cells facing the exercise...
I woke up earlier than usual this morning, and a simple explanation the Monty Hall problem dawned on me: You have a 2/3 chance that your first...
I figured out from my own combinations why switching choices yields a 2/3 advantage: In the games where the combinatorically expected choice...
Logic spans philosophy, math, and computer science.
If you post your code, we might be able to pinpoint where we differ and why.
In what has come to be known as "The Monty Hall Problem," a gameshow host, Monty Hall, offers a contestant the opportunity to choose any one of three...
I disagree. Pimsleur language instruction materials require the learner to engage in a dialogue and to pose or respond to pieces of conversation. I...
I have first-hand experience of trying to bend the arm of a soft-style martial artist who invited me to try with all my strength and power to bend...
I was getting ready to post a thread about an alternative explanation of "soft-style" martial techniques where the mainstream theory would actually...
Anyone who at least passed an algebra class knows that you are correct, but the real question is whether you are correct by decree rather than by...
In the realm of positive integers, x/y means to count the number of times that y can be subtracted from x before x is reduced to 0 (including any...
Philosophers and logicians used to be the same people, but as logic became more symbolic and form was valued over substance, philosophers became...
I did not know. It's amazing that both languages stayed isolated enough to retain enough evidence to last 15,000 years. A book written entirely in...
The above link is a dead end because the article cannot actually be found in full through its source link. And, the reason that I could not find...
The existence of different stresses in the examples of "white house" (phonetic) reflect different meanings, not just different emotions, but...
I recently acquired a used book entitled Patterns of Spanish Pronunciation: A Drillbook, by J. Donald Bowen and Robert P. Stockwell (Univ. of Chicago...
I came across a book about Spanish pronunciation that used English words and pinyin-like accent marks to demonstrate how English speakers use...
Ooops: res ipsa loquitur, not loquiter.
There was a specific instance in one of my civil-rights actions where I wanted to change from singular to plural, or something like that, when using...
The Code of Hammurabi becomes the Code of Justinian (Codex Justinianus) becomes the Napoleonic Code (Code Napoléon) becomes the law of Louisiana in...
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