Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby
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#2Babies are made through love, love is beautiful, ergo babies are beautiful. Q.E.D.
(I read the whole post, it was an interesting read)
Re: Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby
#3As much as I like coin-flipping examples, I think the Brownian ratchet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet) is a much clearer explanation of this phenomenon.
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#4Babies are made through love, love is beautiful, ergo babies are beautiful. Q.E.D. (I read the whole post, it was an interesting read)
Extending your discussion, love is nothing but chemicals firing in our brain. Maybe human beings are evolved to trigger release chemicals in the brain when certain conditions are met, which could possibly be deterministic? I agree that each person is different, but we're all same in the same way. Think of the attraction to the opposite sex as a seeded random number. Sure, we don't know the seed but if you know a person well enough you're able to make fair judgement and confidently claim that "X isn't Y's type".
I'd love to continue discussion on this philosophical point. "Love" is afterall nothing but an abstract construct which has proven beneficial in furthering the species when we were being chased by lions and bears.
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#5I am not sure whether the conclusion is right. But the explanation is lame since the second game depends on the your cash status which could be affected in a favored way to make the second game a winning one.
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#6It didn't seem like much of a paradox to me, since game B is really two different games, and interleaving plays of game A changes the likelihood of playing B1 vs. B2. Interesting, perhaps, but not terribly unintuitive.
Re: Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby
#7Babies are made through love, love is beautiful, ergo babies are beautiful. Q.E.D. (I read the whole post, it was an interesting read)
Extending your discussion, love is nothing but chemicals firing in our brain. Maybe human beings are evolved to trigger release chemicals in the brain when certain conditions are met, which could possibly be deterministic? I agree that each person is different, but we're all same in the same way. Think of the attraction to the opposite sex as a seeded random number. Sure, we don't know the seed but if you know a pers…
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#9Babies are made through love, love is beautiful, ergo babies are beautiful. Q.E.D. (I read the whole post, it was an interesting read)
HN seems to wake up to bitter pedants. Have an upvote.
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#10In the other examples at the bottom tucked in there is a great example of how seemingly negative things can actually turn out to be a positive thing, this example is talking about the board game chutes and ladders.
I explained the seemingly paradoxical situation where it is
possible to add additional chutes to a game board and
reduce the average length of a game! How come? Well, if you
have a long ladder in the game (such that landing on one
will propel you far up the board for a strong advantage),
and you miss it; If the added additional chutes on the
board send you back to before this long ladder, then you
have a second attempt to hit the long ladder!