A quick midweek post while I delay starting on a 750 word essay about Martingales, because, well, anything is better than writing essays. Mind, Martingale is vaguely interesting in that it offers a get rich quick scheme provided you have an infinite amount of money, and infinite amount of time, and you can always bet as much as you want.
Anyway, my meltdown contiunued through last weekend, but I’ve now dropped the offending Complex Analysis, and actually stand a reasonable chance of passing this year. I still wouldn’t recommend Maths at ANU though.
I’m heading of to New Zealand in a couple of weeks, and that should give me weeks worth of interesting facts and stats to fill my blog with, but I’ll admit that I’m short on ideas at the moment. Canberra continues to be what you expect from a planned city, and we’re continuing to bemoan a lack of cornershops and takeaways nearby.
Essentially, I just wanted to remind you that you can subscribe to my blog with the little box on the right –>
And finally, to share this with you. If you have Google Chrome on your computer (an alternative to Internet Explorer – click on the link to download), then you can check out the future of HTML5 with an interactive video by Arcade Fire. The project is called The Wilderness Downtown, and is an impressively interactive music video. You will need speakers, and you will need a decently powered computer, so work or university computers are out of the question.
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2 comments
dad says:
September 9, 2010 at 5:03 pm (UTC 10 )
Martingales theory is not very good, if you play a game of golf start at 10p a hole with your competitor & keep losing you will lose a fortune. Even if you win one you will only get back what you bet so no gain. If you are good at golf then that changes things. In football betting this gets worse as you have 3 outcomes to every game so you must bet on odds greater than evens to achieve a win. Try my theory & back QPR to get promotion this year.
boromadloon says:
September 15, 2010 at 4:21 pm (UTC 10 )
Yeah, it only works if you have an infinitely long golf course, because then you’re bound to win eventually. And you’d have to have an infinite amouny of money to put down. And you’d have to hope your opponent agreed every single time. I’m impressed you understood it that quick though =D