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Daily Archives: May 4, 2006

May
4
2006

Monty Hall in Squeak

Over at www.developertesting.com, I wrote about the Monty Hall problem and how I was convinced of the answer by an unused variable in my Java simulation. Markus wrote a nice simulation in Squeak (dunno what it will do if you … Continue reading

May
4
2006

A War for Oil ?

The meme travelling through blogs from Scott Adam’s to Andrew Sullivan’s this week is that the high cost of oil proves that the war in Iraq was not about oil. The proof goes something like this If we (the US) … Continue reading

May
4
2006

Spoken like a Portuguese

I find the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis – the idea that thought is constrained by language – to be fascinating. Here’s a variation on it from The Guardian Take the Portuguese president of the European commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, for example. Barroso … Continue reading