Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...
Futurism

Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find

All bets are off, because it turns out that flipping a coin — which is rather questionably used to tie-break elections across the world — isn’t actually a fair fifty-fifty chance. As part of a new, ...
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Is the Coin Flip Really Fifty-Fifty?

A coin flip is the quintessence of fifty-fifty chance, but a large group of researchers recently overturned its equitable reputation. Recording a painstaking 350,000+ coin flips by hand, they found ...