A link to the Game Theory course...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/game-theory-video/id341651977

Game Theory

I have been watching the Yale Apple iTunes University class on Game Theory.

See:

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

Then navigate to Universities / Yale / Game Theory

and off you go.

Pictures of the SP4449 visit

An ordinary commuter train leaving Naperville

An ordinary commuter train leaving Naperville for comparison with the SP4449.

The SP4449 Locomotive Comes to Naperville

Here is a movie of the SP4449's saying "Goodbye" to Naperville.

Michael Jackson and other Celebrity deaths

The reason rare events group together is due to the mathematics that governs their statistics. The name given to that is "Poisson Statistics".

It applies when the probability for an event (famous celeb dying in one particular day) is very small but the number of occasions during which the event could happen (number of days in the year) is large. In that case one sees the events (celebs dying) grouped together in two's, three's or four's or whatever in a day but also many days when nothing happens.

It may seem strange but it is entirely expected.

For the mathematics behind this, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

It's the same reason one has the impression that airline accidents occur in three's, etc.

What A Combo!

Zen and Psychoanalysis

An article from the New York Times magazine that I found interesting....