Unexpected Value
The expected value is not necessarily the value you should expect, Simon has proven to me today. It started from a morbid story about a dangerous attraction in Kyoto. We … Continue reading Unexpected Value
Tag: probability theory
Math Fun
Simon finds the explanation on Brilliant.org incomplete, so he started a discussion about it on the Brilliant community page: https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/games-of-chance-course-marble-problem/?ref_id=1570424
Experimenting with random walks in Wolfram Mathematica
Simon’s code is published online at: https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/monajune0/Published/Random_walk_distribution.nbhttps://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/monajune0/Published/Random_walk_distribution2D.nb “If I take many random walks and see what the endpoints of those random walks are, what I’ll find is a Gaussian distribution!” … Continue reading Experimenting with random walks in Wolfram Mathematica
The probability of winning a game of NIM
Simon has tried to find out whether each of the players have equally fair chance to win a NIM game. In many games that’s exactly the case, but not in … Continue reading The probability of winning a game of NIM
Flipping Coins
Simon created this coin flip simulation in the form of a game that runs until you get 10 heads in a row. In the video, he explains what the chance … Continue reading Flipping Coins
Random Number Generator Graphing Probability
This random number generator Simon built in Processing simultaneously graphs the probability of the values as you “throw the dice”. This is Simon’s own code and what’s more, he … Continue reading Random Number Generator Graphing Probability
Probabilities and Logarithms
What does Simon do when he is sick and free from having any lessons? Follow a course on probability theory and logarithms (which he watched four times), writing equations and … Continue reading Probabilities and Logarithms
Geeks out of the box 