March 07, 2004

Coin Flip. "In the theory of probability, fair coin flips are the fundamental particles of randomness .. At least it seemed that way. But renowned statistician Persi Diaconis has locked the fair coin flip in the ivory tower of abstraction, forever. It started years ago with his demonstration that he can flip a coin so that it comes up heads at will .. Then he built a coin-flipping machine and showed that, when flipped the same way, coins always land on the same side ..". more SIGNAL + NOISE. (via MR) Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack