March 31, 2010
I’m Tobi Lehman, programmer and student at Portland State University, more personal information is here.
If you want a more formal snapshot of me, my resumé contains my professional and educational background.
My side projects and mathematical games can be found at my blog, Axiomatic Doubt. The headlines are posted below.
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March 30, 2010
Edit: I apologize for not posting the Friday find the Fallacy for the last two fridays, I’ve been very busy with school and work. For now here is an experiment that explores the binomial probability distribution. In my probability class we derived a discrete probability function called the binomial distribution. It was interesting to see [...]
Alice and Bill got into an argument about probability after Alice accused Bill of being innumerate for his statement about the weather (see last week). Alice maintained that the probability was 75% whereas Bob claimed it was 100%. After a lengthy debate, Alice conceded that there wasn’t enough information about how related the events on [...]
This is the first Friday Find the Fallacy, a weekly puzzle where all you perspicacious readers try to identify what’s wrong with a particular piece of reasoning. I’ll post a tidbit that demonstrates a logical fallacy, and then in the comments, post what you think the fallacy is (double points if you know the latin name!). [...]
The fact that these devices cost the same is preposterous.
After becoming more interested in mathematics as a discipline and taking more math classes, I started to develop an unwarranted bias against approximation and application. My position was that all that was valuable and worth knowing were logically necessary truths, I exalted mathematical proof, and regarded it as the golden standard of knowledge. Not being [...]
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