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I'm unable to reproduce the results. Balance is always negative. What's wrong with my code? // for a graph var balances = []; // constants var winnings = 1, losses = -1, epsilon = 0.05; function play(probOfWinning) { return Math.random()
The graph in the article shows the average state of each round over 1 million games.
Babies 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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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…
Love is "just chemicals" in the same way that anger is "just chemicals". The chemicals are the substrate, but to say that is not very informative. Analogously you also wouldn't say computer software is "just electrons". Beware of "nothing buttery"; reduction is a great thing, but only if we truly understand the reduction (as in, heat is movement of molecules). Re: determinism, I expect the whole process to be non-det…
In fact, I think the design of a thing is closer to its essence than the implementation. Moonlight Sonata is neither just bits, nor just vinyl, nor just vibrating strings. In any implementation, it is Moonlight Sonata. The essence of it is the music, the information, Beethoven's intent and insight.
Love is the same way. Of course consciousness and will are implemented in chemicals. They have to be implemented in something. That does not make them less real.
It 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.
What a crock. I think the Monty Hall Problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem) is far more vexxing and interesting.
Isn't it a little sketchy to have one of the "games" be a game that takes into account outside information like your balanace? Here's another "paradox": Game A: You lose a dollar every time. Game B: If the last game you played was game A, you win a million dollars. Otherwise, you lose a dollar. AAAAAAA... loses, BBBBBBB... loses, but ABABABABA... makes you rich! Suddenly it doesn't seem so paradoxical to me.
Isn't it a little sketchy to have one of the "games" be a game that takes into account outside information like your balanace? Here's another "paradox": Game A: You lose a dollar every time. Game B: If the last game you played was game A, you win a million dollars. Otherwise, you lose a dollar. AAAAAAA... loses, BBBBBBB... loses, but ABABABABA... makes you rich! Suddenly it doesn't seem so paradoxical to me.
But that's not quite the same thing. In your example, you can't play game B independantly :)
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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…
Love is "just chemicals" in the same way that anger is "just chemicals". The chemicals are the substrate, but to say that is not very informative. Analogously you also wouldn't say computer software is "just electrons". Beware of "nothing buttery"; reduction is a great thing, but only if we truly understand the reduction (as in, heat is movement of molecules). Re: determinism, I expect the whole process to be non-det…
Again, although I'm forced to concede your second paragraph that there might be some influence by what you've eaten yesterday, I'd like to believe that they're not that large. Because, if that were true everyone who'd eat (for instance) spicy things would constantly be in a state of irritation and anger.
People's temperament, moods, general thoughts might as well be a pre-seeded RNG.
Struggling with this one. Help me out: If I play roulette and bet black, red, red, black, red, red, etc., I'm going to win?
The same odds as always choosing black or red.