| Neither snow nor rain nor gloom
of night shall stay these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed rounds.
'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me,
Mom, in your long arms.
In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.
In your arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
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| It is possible that no one but me cares, but I have been wondering about this for a long time, so I finally worked out the answer:
In a game of Risk, if the attacker is rolling 3 dice and the defender is rolling 2 dice, the average number of wins for the attacker is 1.079. So on average, the defender will lose very slightly more armies than the attacker.
However, the standard deviation is 0.8112, so many battles will go much better or much worse than this.
The raw numbers are: on 5 6-sided dice, there are 7776 possible outcomes. Of those, the attacker wins twice on 2890 rolls, wins once on 2611 rolls, and wins zero times on 2275 rolls.
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| - Arrive home from work with plan to do math homework.
- Procrastinate for two hours. Do not play Rock Band, because you are supposed to be doing homework and that would be wrong. Thus totally fail to maximize the use of your procrastination time.
- Actually start doing homework.
- After working for a while, realize:
- You've gotten a quarter of one problem done.
- You've been working for an hour.
- Take LJ break and contemplate your fate.
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| | I've been slow to acknowledge my debt to Benoit Mandelbrot. Anyway, the icon says it all. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| yAt!
It's been a while since I've done one of these.
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| This Saturday, May 15th, I am performing the Bach Mass in B Minor with the Back Bay Chorale. The concert starts at 8 PM and will be in Sanders Theater at Harvard University. There will be a preconcert lecture at 7 for those who are interested in learning about the music before the concert.
J. S. Bach's music is nearly perfect. He builds intricate patterns of sound, with interlocking melodies, harmonies, voices, and instruments joining together to create expressive emotional spaces. In the Mass in B Minor, the care which he uses in choosing the voices, instruments, and settings to get to the heart of the meaning of each section of the mass text is obvious. But what's more subtle is the way the music builds on itself, with each section drawing on and expanding on what has come before. By the time the music reaches the Dona Nobis Pacem, it becomes intensely powerful. This is an amazing piece of music and I am thrilled to be performing it.
The chorus is ready, the orchestra sounds great, and the soloists are fantastic. Tickets are available online at the Back Bay Chorale website.
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