tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post6820017110465588572..comments2024-02-09T18:16:45.614+00:00Comments on The Psy-Fi Blog: Forensic Finance, Benford's Waytimarrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06254802085744425067noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-147431157371437632011-01-24T13:03:42.870+00:002011-01-24T13:03:42.870+00:00Random House published a very good book with rando...Random House published a very good book with random numbers in the fifties. As was pointed out by several of the reviewers, the only problem was that it lacked an index or other tool to help if you wanted to locate your favorite random number.<br />http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/product-reviews/0833030477Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-64317859165885073202011-01-24T08:12:09.255+00:002011-01-24T08:12:09.255+00:00Hi Patrick
Interesting program. But no, I wrote ...Hi Patrick<br /><br />Interesting program. But no, I wrote this about 3 months ago as a follow up to <a href="http://www.psyfitec.com/2010/10/cardanos-gambit.html" rel="nofollow">Cardano's Gambit</a>. If you're interested in this stuff Mlowdinow's book is excellent: I found <i>that</i> because I was looking for an example of fraud on a corporate scale for the post: serendipity is everywhere, if you look hard enough :)timarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06254802085744425067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-20575424812211429122011-01-23T16:44:06.665+00:002011-01-23T16:44:06.665+00:00A fascinating phenomenon, thanks. On a simpler lev...A fascinating phenomenon, thanks. On a simpler level, just asking people to produce random two digit numbers often makes them reluctant to choose repeated digits like 11, 22 etc.KoRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11163824542900298686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-38734442834787287362011-01-23T16:15:21.362+00:002011-01-23T16:15:21.362+00:00Were you inspired by IOT http://www.bbc.co.uk/prog...Were you inspired by IOT http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x9xjb or is that a random coincidence?pafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02128542467931570558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-32119697480980788082011-01-22T22:04:52.827+00:002011-01-22T22:04:52.827+00:00We see it when we believe it. Great post.We see it when we believe it. Great post.Jonathan Smithhttp://www.blog.jonathansmith.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-39908905515577397592011-01-19T11:39:45.078+00:002011-01-19T11:39:45.078+00:00Typo?:
"randomly sample naturally occurring ...<i>Typo?:<br /><br />"randomly sample naturally occurring distributions randomly"</i><br /><br />Yep, too many "randomly"s: some kind of post-moderist joke - i.e. not funny.<br /><br />Fixed, thanks.timarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06254802085744425067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-27699116429307936942011-01-19T09:42:14.031+00:002011-01-19T09:42:14.031+00:00Interesting post, thanks.
Typo?:
"randomly ...Interesting post, thanks.<br /><br />Typo?:<br /><br />"randomly sample naturally occurring distributions randomly"<br /><br />Now that’s random.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com