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Friday, April 30, 2021
A Probability problem on an Election result
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A friend of mine recently posed the following problem to me: Given two contestants in an election $X$ and $Y$ (with equal popularity among ...
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Expected Value in terms of CDF
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It is well known that the expectation of a non-negative random variable $X$ can be written as $\displaystyle \mathbb{E}[X] \overset{\unders...
Monday, January 18, 2021
Probability on a standard deck of cards
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I'm a great fan of Probability and Combinatorics. The question that we are going to solve in this post remains as one of my most favori...
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Probability on a Contingency Table
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Contingency tables are quite common in understanding a classification problems like that of a ML model or new drug tested against a disease...
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Isochrone on a Spherical surface
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The Cycloid in all its grandeur scooped all the glory for itself by way of being both the brachistochrone curve and the tautochrone curve. ...
Monday, November 30, 2020
Tautochrone curve on a Spherical surface
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The Tautochrone problem is one of the classical problems in math. Both the Wikipedia and the Mathworld page present some great math on the...
Monday, August 3, 2020
Gergonnes's Solution to Apollonius' Problem
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I was recently revisiting my earlier post on A nice result in Geometry and got 'distracted' into the Classical Apollonius prob...
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