Archive for February, 2006

Liu’s Reviews: AIM Clients (Trillian)

In previous Liu’s Reviews, we started to review instant messenger programs. While it used to be that your best choice was probably AIM with an add-on program, there are a lot of alternatives nowadays, and we’ll be looking at the major clients for Windows. In our last article, we reviewed AIM. Today we will be [...]

Chengstein’s very unstatistical response to gas and liucifer

Note: Cheng is under the impression that the answer has to be 50%, therefore making Cheng a 33% denier. Cheng is bored, so chengameepheus has decided to use ninnish examples to exemplify what to do. In my first attempt, i’ll use a Presicion Chengsicion Tree, not to be confused with an exacto tree (snipping would [...]

My statistical response to liuigi’s post

I was going to make this a comment, but I spent enough time thinking about it that I figured it deserved it’s own post. . Q2 depends on how you interpret “you find out that one of their children is male”. Suppose that you discovered this information when you asked a parent “Do you have [...]

The Perils of Not Having Twins: A Paradox

Prerequisites: In order to understand the following, you should intuitively understand why when you flip two coins, there is a 50% chance of getting one head and one tail, and a 25% chance for them both being heads. Question: Let’s say you meet a family with two kids (not twins). After some conversation, you find [...]