tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post5251446477954755554..comments2023-11-05T03:45:25.001-08:00Comments on God Plays Dice: White People hate math, but like statisticsMichael Lugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15671307315028242949noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-70308713153292702562008-07-07T11:33:00.000-07:002008-07-07T11:33:00.000-07:00anon,I'm not sure if it's ranked. Sure, there's a...anon,<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure if it's ranked. Sure, there's an ordering, but it might just be the order in which the author thought of them.Michael Lugohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671307315028242949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-30726847173408744512008-07-07T11:32:00.000-07:002008-07-07T11:32:00.000-07:00bravo for actually generating a set of random numb...bravo for actually generating a set of random numbers for picking your samples from the list. although you should have noticed that it's a ranked (weighted) set, so your random numbers should have been skewed towards rank 1 as those would better represent a sample :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-67470284405706818692008-07-02T09:16:00.000-07:002008-07-02T09:16:00.000-07:00Being in New York (and in Brooklyn, but not the ap...Being in New York (and in Brooklyn, but not the applicable part) it sounds much more like a description of a "Hipster" to me.<BR/><BR/>Anyway some of my classmates and I were going to play a game of bingo using this list in the cafe across the street from the math building. I was about to write a script that would create randomized boards from the list items, when I realized I hated myself and stopped.Oli M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08844606908334641473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-32964421171395162572008-06-25T09:52:00.000-07:002008-06-25T09:52:00.000-07:00This I really have to disagree with. Yes, there a...This I really have to disagree with. Yes, there are some nerds in math departments, but almost all the math majors I know are White People (in the sense of the list). They even outnumber Asians as undergrads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com