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Tag: uncertainty
Watch the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony live!
UPDATE: Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners were introduced at the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Sanders Theater, Harvard University. This year’s theme was “UNCERTAINTY”. You can read some of the early press accounts. The ceremony was webcast. Here’s recorded video:
Decisive-Regret-Under-Uncertainty Limerick Contest
This month’s research limerick contest: Devise a pleasing limerick that encapsulates this study: “Regret in Decision Making Under Uncertainty,” David E. Bell, Operations Research, vol. 30, no. 5, 1982, pp. 961-981. The author, at Harvard University, reports: “After making a decision under uncertainty, a person may discover, on learning the relevant outcomes, that another alternative […]
The Uncertainty Machine
NIST has an uncertainty machine. This theme of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is UNCERTAINTY. Make of these two facts what you will. Does the uncertainty machine have a manual. Yes, it does. (Thanks to Arno Laesecke for bringing the machine to our attention.)
The bad news sandwich
To set the scene, an Improbable joke. Doctor : “Ah, Mr. Smith, we have some good news and some bad news, which do you want first?” Mr. Smith : “Gimme the bad news doc.” Doctor : “We amputated the wrong foot.” Mr. Smith : “Agggggh ! – And the good news?” Doctor: “The other one’s […]