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- Injecting unique minima into random sets and applications to "Inverse Auctions"
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- Exploring the Average Values of Boolean Functions via Asymptotics and Experimentation
- 2005 International Conference on Analysis of Algorithms DMTCS proc. AD, 2005, 95104 Analysis of the average depth in a suffix tree
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- On Monday in math class, Mrs. Fibonacci says, "You know, you can think of almost everything as a math problem." On Tuesday I start having problems.
- How come "fat chance" and "thin chance" mean the same thing? --Ziggy cartoon created by Tom Wilson
- And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.
- The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
- Dilbert says, "The best way to make this decision is by calculating the expected value of each possible outcome. You multiply the. . . " Dilbert's boss closes his eyes, leans back, and
- I, at any rate, am convinced that [God] does not throw dice. --Albert Einstein, from a letter to Max Born (December 4, 1926), reprinted in The Born-
- "Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you." "Math is like war, people! If you fall behind in your unit, you will die!"
- We make chance a matter of absolute calculation. We subject the unlooked for and unimagined, to the mathematical formul of the schools.
- The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities. --James Clerk Maxwell
- If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult.
- Sir,--It has been wittily remarked that there are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a `fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third and most aggravated is statistics.
- "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. --E. T. Bell
- Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing. --Danica McKellar
- "William Feller was a probability theorist at Princeton University. One day he and his wife wanted to move a large table from one room of their large house to another, but, try as
- A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. --Herbert S. Wilf, from generatingfunctionology, 3rd edition (2006)
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- Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are
- Five Friendly Facts about Discrete Random Variables (All 5 facts are true about continuous random variables too, but we will get to that later.)
- A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps. --James Thurber
- The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
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- --Randall Munroe, from xkcd.com, posted January 1, 2006 This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
- 2005 International Conference on Analysis of Algorithms DMTCS proc. AD, 2005, 307322 Analysis of the multiplicity matching
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- While writing my book I had an argument with Feller. He asserted that everyone said "random variable" and I asserted that everyone said "chance variable." We obviously had
- NUMBER OF SURVIVORS IN THE PRESENCE OF A DEMON GUY LOUCHARD
- Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
- I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter. --Yakov Smirnoff
- October 15, 2010 Chapter 20 Answers
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. --Aristotle
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- Are no probabilities to be accepted, merely because they are not certainties? --Jane Austin, from Sense and Sensibility
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- Mr. Osborne, may I be excused? My brain is full. --Gary Larson, The Far Side (1986)
- Probability is a mathematical discipline whose aims are akin to those, for example, of geometry of analytical mechanics. In each field we must carefully distinguish three aspects
- Why's everything got to be so intense with me? I'm trying to handle all this unpredictability
- September 29, 2010 Chapter 16 Problems
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- The Average Profile of Suffix Trees Mark Daniel Ward
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- Probability is the very guide of life. 21 Joint Densities
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- 2005 International Conference on Analysis of Algorithms DMTCS proc. AD, 2005, 231256 The number of distinct values of some
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- 2007 Conference on Analysis of Algorithms, AofA 07 DMTCS proc. AH, 2007, 118 On Correlation Polynomials and Subword
- Applied Probability Trust (1 February 2011) ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES OF A LEADER ELECTION ALGO-
- Good order is the foundation of all great things. --Edmund Burke
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- --Randall Munroe, from xkcd.com, posted September 20, 2010 This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
- [Picture of both pilots in the cockpit--while the airplane is flying--and they are down on the ground looking for their contact lenses.] "Well, there is some irony in all this, you
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- The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. --Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition (1973)
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- When all you have to count are the hours to suppertime, it doesn't matter whether you use `old math' or `new math'!
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- Inverse Auctions: Injecting Unique Minima Into Random Sets
- Probability is the very guide of life. --Joseph Butler
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- Midterm Exam 3 Friday, April 18, 2008
- In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. --Louis Pasteur
- The word probability, in its mathematical acceptation, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail.
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- The probable is what usually happens. --Aristotle
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- Error Resilient LZ'77 Scheme and Its Analysis1 Stefano Lonardi
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- If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
- A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. --Mark Twain
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