LOL. Very realistic. <irony>
Really Bad Math Jokes
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Three statisiticians are all out duck hunting. One of them spots a duck off in the distance. The first statistician picks up his gun and fires. He misses by 3 feet to the left. The second one picks up his gun, fires and misses 3 feet to the right. The third one stands up and exclaims "We hit it!"
ColdCoffee wrote:
I say we tell the worst math jokes we know. Here is one I heard a couple of weeks ago(Game Theory joke).
A police officer is called to a scene in which a burgler has just stolen some jeweltry from a home. The officer immediately, upon seeing the burgler, pulls out his gun and threatens to shoot.
The burgler darts out and runs off into the alley. The police officer chases after him but comes to a three way fork, each possible path with its own advantages and disadvatanges. In order to decide which alley to run down, the officer pulls out a piece of paper and begins to attempt to solve the game matrix for the problem (Using the Shapley-Snow procedure of course....).
Seconds later, the officer's partner runs out and yells, "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!?!?! HE'S GETTING AWAY" The officer looks up with a very confused look and says, "What, I am trying to solve the game, doesn't he have to do that too?"
I have another bad one I will post later.
Of course, when the officer gets to the fork, he actually has four choices: to take path 1, to take path 2, to take path 3, and to sit there and figure out the optimal choice. So the problem is self-referencing, which means he might need to develop a higher-order language to solve it 
I like these ones so far!
balifid wrote:
ColdCoffee wrote:
I say we tell the worst math jokes we know. Here is one I heard a couple of weeks ago(Game Theory joke).
A police officer is called to a scene in which a burgler has just stolen some jeweltry from a home. The officer immediately, upon seeing the burgler, pulls out his gun and threatens to shoot.
The burgler darts out and runs off into the alley. The police officer chases after him but comes to a three way fork, each possible path with its own advantages and disadvatanges. In order to decide which alley to run down, the officer pulls out a piece of paper and begins to attempt to solve the game matrix for the problem (Using the Shapley-Snow procedure of course....).
Seconds later, the officer's partner runs out and yells, "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!?!?! HE'S GETTING AWAY" The officer looks up with a very confused look and says, "What, I am trying to solve the game, doesn't he have to do that too?"
I have another bad one I will post later.
Of course, when the officer gets to the fork, he actually has four choices: to take path 1, to take path 2, to take path 3, and to sit there and figure out the optimal choice. So the problem is self-referencing, which means he might need to develop a higher-order language to solve it
Hmmmm.... So we need to develop a theory to determine whether or not to use game theory? Interesting...
Did the topologist think his plate was topologically equivalent to his food or something? :)
As a note to whether or not one should include the option of analysing one's decision choices based on game theory being an option itself, immediately gives an infinite regress. If we want a finite number of choice, we can't include such strategies! Which arises an interesting problem, because some people do delay in picking a strategy. A program that analyses such decision choices must determine the appropriate place to stop which is a somewhat harder technical problem.
Elroch wrote:
A topologist went to a tea party and broke his front teeth.
You Analyists even tell terse jokes!
strangequark wrote:
As a note to whether or not one should include the option of analysing one's decision choices based on game theory being an option itself, immediately gives an infinite regress. If we want a finite number of choice, we can't include such strategies! Which arises an interesting problem, because some people do delay in picking a strategy. A program that analyses such decision choices must determine the appropriate place to stop which is a somewhat harder technical problem.
I imagine that people who write decision-making programs frequently have to deal with this type of problem.
For example when programming a chess engine or AI for a strategy game, we assign to each move/decision a 'want' value. We generally assume that the immediate consequences of the decision have the greatest effect on this evaluation, and that possible events in the future have a smaller effect. However, in chess, the outcome of a big tactical melee will determine the evaluation of the move that initiated the tactics, so a computer will calculate more subvariations in an attempt to make sure there are no more tactics beyond the 'horizon' where it stopped calculating.
Fair enough, that would be "more likely".
Didn't somebody here tell a joke about a mobius band one time?
Not that I remember, but I would imagine such to be a good source of jokes.
May 13, 2010
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I used to play saxophone for a Mobius band. We only released one record, and that had no B-side.
lol! So one of us did!
I say we tell the worst math jokes we know. Here is one I heard a couple of weeks ago(Game Theory joke).
A police officer is called to a scene in which a burgler has just stolen some jeweltry from a home. The officer immediately, upon seeing the burgler, pulls out his gun and threatens to shoot.
The burgler darts out and runs off into the alley. The police officer chases after him but comes to a three way fork, each possible path with its own advantages and disadvatanges. In order to decide which alley to run down, the officer pulls out a piece of paper and begins to attempt to solve the game matrix for the problem (Using the Shapley-Snow procedure of course....).
Seconds later, the officer's partner runs out and yells, "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!?!?! HE'S GETTING AWAY" The officer looks up with a very confused look and says, "What, I am trying to solve the game, doesn't he have to do that too?"
I have another bad one I will post later.