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Gamblers Fallacy

March 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

This post is dedicated to Strongo who just again marveled me with his amazing math skills. Strongo suffers from Gamblers fallacy. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman proposed that the gambler’s fallacy is a cognitive bias produced by a psychological heuristic called therepresentativeness heuristic [3][4]. According to this view, “after observing a long run of red on the roulette [...]

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Reality is Real

March 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Well, it feels like it’s been a while since one of those good ol’ fashioned quantum physics posts.. but much like the idea of then, that time has passed. From The Economist Since its birth in the 1920s, physicists and philosophers have grappled with the bizarre consequences that his theory has for reality, including the [...]

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