Zhanga: October 30, 2008
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During my studying for tomorrow's algorithms exam, I came across this lecture slide:
I remember exactly what I was thinking the day the [90-year-old] professor went over this slide: this slide could be so much more interesting.
1:07AM
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I don't get the slide. How many times in a row do you have to choose one cup before the adversary realizes and starts always putting the coin in the other cup? What's the expected payoff before he realizes? Does the $0 expected payoff account for all of the previous results? And who's retarded enough to keep choosing the same cup when the adversary is always putting it in the other one? Plus the coin is a quarter so the expected for random choosing would be $0.13. *headache* Just post the link for twogirlsonecup so I can forget about your crazy algorithms.
Gene on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 9:34 AM
i imagine a geyser of brown coins spewing from somebodys mouth
also, thats a good "gene at 6:34 AM" comment. go to bed!
james on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 5:22 PM
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