Archive for October, 2009

Oct 24 2009

The Coin Has No Memory or Does It?

We have all played the game of flipping coins and matching them. Is it heads or is it tails? Each flip of a regular coin has an equal chance of producing a head or a tail. The coin is said to be “memory-less.” In terms of probability theory each flip of the coin is an [...]

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Oct 12 2009

The Habadasher, The Nurse, and the Professor, Making Data Visual and Meaningful

Published by admin under History of Science

I took a single semester college course in statistics but really did not get any real in depth understanding of the subject. But statistics plays a big role in everything. I have blogged earlier about quantum physics. At the quantum level one cannot really specify the location of an electron, only the probability that one [...]

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Oct 02 2009

Habitat for Humanity Global Village Comes to “The City Different” As It Begins It’s 400 th Anniversary Celebration

Published by admin under Real Estate

The year 1607 is an important one in the history of the settlement of the New World. The British settled Jamestown on the East Coast  in 1607, and the French settled Quebec in Canada in 1608. The exact date that the Spanish settled Santa Fe in the North American Southwest is open to question,but Tom Chavez, the former [...]

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