: Cautionary Tales In Logic, Math, And Probability As the title suggest, Conned Again, Watson! ... Once Holmes gets redressed and comes back down stairs she then declares her problem. ... So Holmes goes to work and it turns out that he new the answer to her problem the moment he set eyes on the two lists. ... Sherlock Holmes comes to his conclusion by using chance and probability. ... He then states that all that it took him to arrive at his conclusion was the use of simple chance and probability. ...

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In our everyday lives this is usually a simple process; we plan our actions all the time, whether it's deciding to go to the bank before going to the pub so that we can afford to buy a round of drinks, or following a recipe to make a Christmas pudding. ... To describe a planner more formally: "A planning system is charged with producing a plan which is a possible solution to a specified problem. The plan produced will be comprised of operator descriptions (templates), provided to the system for each domain of application; in simpler terms, a set of actions. ... When probabilities are c...

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Einstein was genius because of his simple, child-like questions and answers. ... It may seem like a simple enough idea, but it has caused more problems than answers since the mid-nineteenth centaury. ... I would argue that wave and particle behavior, like probability, is how higher dimensions impact our world. ... If both are true, but by looking for specific phenomena we affect the data, both can be seen as quantum probability. By testing and observing we make a probability "real."" ...

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Philosophical Problems with The Theory of Quantum Mechanics & The Various Interpretations Quantum Mechanics As A Science ?... Laws do not provide explanations; they simple state the relationship between the relevant variables. ... The wave function allows us to compute the probability that certain macroscopic events will be observed. ... The SchrÖdinger's Cat Paradox: In 1935 SchrÖdinger published an essay describing the conceptual problems in QM1. ... That is the measurement problem and SchrÖdinger's cat is a simple and elegant explanation of that proble...

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As an object moves, it's mass increases, and time goes slower for the object. Exactly determining the position and momentum of an object is impossible. A particle is mostly here, but partially there, and partially somewhere else. A vacuum consists of electrons with negative mass. In vacuum, particl...

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The problems of philosophy are perceived as weight or heavy problems. They are also extensions of everyday problems. ... The philosopher as a physician Philosophical questions aren't simple at all but very complex. ... From problem to crisis It is possible for a problem to escalate into a crisis both at the social and personal level. ... This theory faces two problems. ...

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The problems of philosophy are perceived as weight or heavy problems. They are also extensions of everyday problems. ... The philosopher as a physician Philosophical questions aren't simple at all but very complex. ... From problem to crisis It is possible for a problem to escalate into a crisis both at the social and personal level. ... This theory faces two problems. ...

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Managers may need assistance in applying the information to their marketing problems and decisions. ... The Marketing Research Process The marketing research process has four steps : - Step 1 - Defining the Problem and Research Objectives Defining the Problem Marketing managers and researchers work together to clearly define the problem and agree the research objectives. ... Identifying the real problem that may be hidden by other problems : - The manager of a large discount retail store decided that falling sales were due to poor advertising and ordere...

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Despite this, they are useful in certain problem domain where they capture the required essential difference between data instances, or are computationally simple to calculate. ... The Mahalanobis threshold correctly excludes a point from a non-related cluster, whereas the simpler Euclidean distance does not. ... Determines probability of membership if population features are jointly Gaussian 3. ... It follows then that no distance function can be strictly better than any other in terms of generalization ability, when considering all possible problems with equal probability. However, when ...

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Decisions that need to be considered as a whole should not be broken down into parts because the essence of the problem will be lost, and it should be left to the individual decision maker. However, there are frustrations within oneself when you cannot either understand the problem or have the courage to act upon it. Individual decisions are prone to be biased, lack perception, and are laden with probability and risk averse errors. ... Group discussions can help individuals to learn judgment strategies that they can use individually solving other problems. When group members jointly prob...

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The first step consists of defining the problem. ... It is likely that an organization will have several problems. Therefore it is important for a quantitative analysis group to concentrate on only a few problems so they can devout more time on solving the problem in clear and concise terms taking into account the objective or goal of each. ... Which always starts simple then introduces complexities. ... Deterministic- there is no probability or chance involved- the situation is known with certainty. 2. ...

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The plan is to create a network infrastructure including the following characteristics: - Built on OSI layers protocols - TCP/IP used on each LAN and Sub-LAN - Bus Topology star wired LAN - Ethernet technology - Extensive use of GUI- window platform - Migrate data to servers Hundreds of LAN administrators will create forums where problems are discussed and new ideas are generated. ... In the hierarchy that starts with a simple microprocessor (in watches, for example) at the bottom and moves to supercomputers at the top, mainframes are just below supercomputers. ... This enables simp...

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For Hume the highest court of appeal is probability. ... In order to reach this conclusion he went though a simple thought process: beliefs about matters of fact are decided according to probability; laws of nature are the beliefs which have the greatest degree of probability; anything which goes against the laws of nature, are improbable and not worth believing; all miracles defy the laws of nature. ... What he believes is based off of probability, and that the laws of nature are always likely to hold true. ... The laws of nature will still always be more probable then a miracle, because pr...

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In a story called The Feeling of Power, Asimov portrays how people started using computers to do even simple mathematical calculations. ... The lack of manual mathematics, which people chose to forget in the story, caused computers to be the ones to solve simply mathematics problems for the p le taking control of the humans by doing the work for them (The Feeling of Power 81-82). ... According to another story in the book, Asimov also describes how computers would be able to predict probabilities of an event, future. ... Multivac could access its vast database of trillions of pieces of kno...

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Toyota tried to explain it away as a simple flaw in the floor mat design. ... It was not until the public became aware of the problems, did Toyota decide to fix them. The problem with the brakes and other mechanical faults could have resulted in catastrophe. ... From this simple, basic data, the ingredients to our products are improved for better customer quality, and for this reason it would be useful in researching Toyota. ... When combined with statistical probability sampling for selecting participants, survey findings and conclusions are projected to affect large and diverse populations."...

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Now a days, acupuncture is being used to "treat" a number of current issues from a simple migraine or back pain to various forms of addiction, such as alcohol, nicotine, or cocaine addiction. ... Popper focused on the problem of demarcation, distinguishing between science and pseudoscience. ... Therefore, to Popper, if testing shows that a treatment is seen to work, beyond the probability of chance, and after repeated trials with the same outcome, then the treatment, according to Popper, would be considered valid. On the other hand, if testing of a treatment does not work, more than ...

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The trash in the city is also a huge problem. ... Kozol believes that the solution to this problem is simple. ... However, there are some problems with this solution. ... Yet, the probability for developing these standards is greater than the one for total equalization. ... However, I am glad that I was exposed to both environments because as an educator, hopefully I can one day contribute solutions to this problem, not add to it. ...

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After hearing the dire predictions regarding the probability of Apple surviving IBM domination, Steven Jobs realized that professional marketing help was vital. ... There are very few disadvantages to this solution as developing a competent web page is relatively simple to create. ... Problems concerning a grouping solution are limited as all of the products are already available. ... Problems with this solution, however, include the fact that it focuses on only one target market "and that it requires a computer to access the solution. ... The target market is the market with the most...

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After hearing the dire predictions regarding the probability of Apple surviving IBM domination, Steven Jobs realized that professional marketing help was vital. ... There are very few disadvantages to this solution as developing a competent web page is relatively simple to create. ... Problems concerning a grouping solution are limited as all of the products are already available. ... Problems with this solution, however, include the fact that it focuses on only one target market-and that it requires a computer to access the solution. ... The target market is the market with the most potentia...

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After hearing the dire predictions regarding the probability of Apple surviving IBM domination, Steven Jobs realized that professional marketing help was vital. ... There are very few disadvantages to this solution as developing a competent web page is relatively simple to create. ... Problems concerning a grouping solution are limited as all of the products are already available. ... Problems with this solution, however, include the fact that it focuses on only one target market "and that it requires a computer to access the solution. ... The target market is the market with the most...

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The Cosmic Cookbook entry for an inflationary universe, on the other hand, looks as simple as meringue. ... Nevertheless, I will dismiss the gargantuan mass density of the false vacuum as a mere engineering problem, boldly assuming that some civilization in the distant, unforeseeable future will be capable of creating such densities. ... This part of the problem, therefore, will be left for our descendants to solve. ... One hope for evading this problem involves a peculiar consequence of quantum theory, the process of quantum tunneling. ... But calculations show that each time a false vacuum b...

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The probability is being talked among many who believe that Mars could be an adaptive place for initial colony of four astronauts to live. ... Obviously this might not be that simple due to constraints on possibilities of things going wrong. ... The things that might go wrong with this trip could happen in many ways that scientists would have to plan out many scenarios on endless problems that the crew might encounter to guarantee a safe lifetime by all on the Mars. ...

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SUB OPTIMISATION One of the serious organisational problems that has developed in the casino business in the last few years has been a growing sub optimisation of the overall hotel casino performance. ... The problem is greatly complicated when there are different ways to play a game such as Craps which have different mathematical percentages and when players, as they frequently do, carry chips from table to table or game to game. ... Actually, the latter two examples are identical, if certain simple assumptions are made. ... But for small samples, there is something unique about each...

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