The Unhappy Me thread

[Flatlander]

From another thread,

PS did those badgers have TB, road killed or culled?

Let me know how they taste.

David

All at the side of the road so I assume they were hit. One on the way to Tunbridge Wells, one on the way back. But three large adults all within 100m at Mayfield.
They taste a bit like panda.

[Uncwilly]

When I drove through Texas, I never saw a live Armadillo (they were all wheels up on the side of the road). Must be the same for badgers.

Originally Posted by Flatlander

They taste a bit like panda.

Agreed.


But, they don't taste as good as moa or dodo, now that's good eatin'.

[Xyzzy]

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Flatlander

They taste a bit like panda.

That is so funny, and completely herbivore/carnivore,
hunter/conservationist neutral!

David

[davieddy]

Clocks go back
Trick or treat
Fireworks

David

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by Flatlander

Drove through some country lanes the other day and saw 5 dead badgers.

I did think about bringing one home for my daughter who collects animal skulls! Imagine the stink.

Around here, we see dead raccoons during summer months. I happened to drive by one lying on the median twice a week for a while. After one week the swelling was noticeable, and after two weeks it was balloonishly round and enlarged.

The next time I passed, it was over on the shoulder ... deflated.

[only_human]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Why glum about this?

This from my peripatetic reading just today:

The point of the game is that it is very easy to spot which list comes from flipping the real coin and which comes from the imagined coin [...] First I looked at the maximum run of heads or tails [...]the probability of a run of 5 in 30 flips is almost two thirds [...] most people never ascribe a run of 5 in 30 flips because it seems to be too deliberate to be random [...] When imagining coin flips, our brains tend to alternate outcomes much more frequently than actually occurs in a truly random sequence -- after a couple of heads, our instinct is to compensate and imagine an outcome of tails, even though the chance of heads is still just as likely. Here, the gambler's fallacy appears. True randomness has no memory of what came before

Here's looking at Euclid by Alex Bellos, pg. 225 ISBN 978-1-4165-8825-2

[henryzz]

Firefox crashed opening a text file attachment in notepad and it's folder in windows explorer. It eventually started both dozens of times until it ran out of memory(on a 6GB system!!).

[Xyzzy]

Why glum about this?

That was from one of the Troll's homework. For some reason we think it sounds wrong.

The last time we talked about this topic here we got a real bad headache.

http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=3371

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

That was from one of the Troll's homework. For some reason we think it sounds wrong.[ ... ]

It sounds wrong to me too but only if the question expected a "correct" answer that Joe made the data up.
If the examiner was looking for an answer that either data set could have been produced randomly and, in the second part of the question, comments about measuring randomness like in the other thread you link, then that would be alright, wouldn't it?
Did the Troll get the homework back with comments?

[Xyzzy]

It sounds wrong to me too but only if the question expected a "correct" answer that Joe made the data up.

We believe that this is what the teacher (Troll1) was asking. (The Troll children are taught at home.)

If the examiner was looking for an answer that either data set could have been produced randomly and, in the second part of the question, comments about measuring randomness like in the other thread you link, then that would be alright, wouldn't it?

Troll3 is in, we think, fourth grade, so we doubt it has delved into math that deep. Troll3 did seem quite pleased with the answer, though.

Did the Troll get the homework back with comments?

We queried Troll1 about this question but all we received was a litany of grunts and a menacing stare, so we dropped the subject.