The Monty Hall Problem
- 06.15.11
- armchair philosophy, logic, poker, course, lonergan, monty hall, monty hall problem, Problem
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One of my favorites. Learned about this the first day of a course on Lonergan, oddly enough (or not, really, as much of Lonergan says is counterintuitive and made a nice lead-in). This video is a very eloquent explanation of the problem. Easily half of my classmates refused to believe it. I was skeptical at [...]
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
- 09.11.10
- jerks, media, propaganda, television, wat, course, cult leader, different perspective, lower manhattan, religion
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The Huffington Post takes it out on the media that let this whole mess get out of control: Yesterday afternoon, the leader of a microscopic cult of idiots who announced plans to stage an “international” day of Quran burning in Gainesville, Florida held a press conference, for a rapt media which decided that his moronic [...]