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Archive for February 28th, 2008

Conditional Independence

Posted by admin on February 28th, 2008

An honest man is flipping a fair coin. After flipping ‘heads’ seven times in a row, a banker walks up and offers the honest man a bet of $50 if the next flip is ‘heads’. The banker hasn’t seen the previous seven flips. Should the honest man take the bet?
More importantly, do [...]

Gmail down?

Posted by admin on February 28th, 2008

This is new for me. I’ve never seen gmail down before. I have several accounts, and one of them came up with this message:
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages [...]