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  1. Math for Primates: Probably about Probability

    • How math can turn you into a fortune teller.
    • What is a “precise falafel”?
    • Is an infinite number of Nick’s a good or a bad thing? I say good!
    • $7 bucks is a lot of money. Just sayin’
    • Expected value of using your Quantum Superpowers to play the lottery.
    • The primate brain’s pattern recognition is both kick-ass, and dumb as hell.
    • Nick: “Get out while you can, monkey!”
    • The reason Las Vegas is not a Not for Profit city.
    • Chess or Poker, that is the question.
    • Natufian tribes, genes, and humpin’.

    From http://www.mathforprimates.com/2010/04/30/episode-013-probably-about-probability/

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  2. Leonard Mlodinow on randomness and his book The Drunkard’s Walk

    Leonard Mlodinow, of the California Institute of Technology is the author of The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. His lecture on the subject of randomness was presented by the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario on May 6th, 2009.

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  3. Predictioneer: How to predict the future with game-theory

    Recorded at the London School of Economics.

    Speaker: Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Politics at NYU and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

    Chair: Professor Richard Steinberg

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