Is this related to "How to Lie with Statistics"?

He's *literally* the worst. But I do read his work.

Right?!

Glenn! I can't thank you enough! This is seriously amazing and I'm so appreciative that you went through all of the trouble.

Even NCTM spent several weeks and nobody was able to find a copy!

Now to rehash the arguments from the 80s and 90s about what "math" is and what we should be teaching! 🤪

Oh wait, that was with 1 card then flip on a "war". I updated to 123-flip.

I manually played a million or so games with my kids and it seemed pretty promising for just aces.

Here's a simulator that I think is legit (?): williams-bhs.github.io/simulation/c...

I've got some numbers for 4A, and for 4A+4K, and it seems high probability for both.

Need more clarification on war: how many cards are involved? I always played 3 cards face down then flip. I see on Wikipedia rules this is a variation, and a common rule is 1 card face down then flip new card.

Right! It does seem like the best...

It's always going to be 8 vs 44 after the first 4 turns.

If there is"war" (players play matching cards) and one player has too few cards, what happens? What are the rules, I guess is what I'm asking.

Oh yes of course, though I've only ever seen the asymmetric definition introduced as one sided. The speech is always: consider a point, now consider a point a little to the right...

But with the standard derivative definition the derivative of |x| at x=0 is 1. I don't know that 1 is better or worse.

Perhaps not only, just there are lots of places in engineering where the function is a model and not the phenomenon, and the math breaking doesn't necessarily mean the phenomenon breaks.

If you want to talk about derivatives at points where f doesn't exist, I support you. It is all made up anyway.

I say we can!
Over 2h.

I remember a nice conversation about this a few years ago on the other site. From the applied math perspective it might be totally reasonable in some contexts to find f' at a point where f has a hole in it

Thanks Chris!
I would love to see everyone who speaks about AI using appropriate metaphors as you did with dumpster fire 😂

There's no recording, but the slides are here if interested: jedediyah.github.io/atmim2024/

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Only my favorite NCTM publication of all time!