There’s a lovely problem about meeting at the Mozart Cafe — in Vienna, where there are N such cafes. If you and a friend have no common numbering of the cafes, what is the best way to rendezvous as quickly as possible? For some recent work you may enjoy, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01582 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01582> - Cris
On Feb 21, 2019, at 4:15 PM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
In the article is a link to another page on Kolmogorov, http://nautil.us/issue/8/Home/best-of-2013-the-man-who-invented-modern-proba... with teaser quotation << If two statisticians were to lose each other in an infinite forest, the first thing they would do is get drunk. That way, they would walk more or less randomly, which would give them the best chance of finding each other. >>
While such a strategy might provide collateral benefits, I remain unconvinced of its optimality: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
WFL
On 2/21/19, Bernie Cosell <bernie@fantasyfarm.com> wrote:
<http://nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/the-impossible-mathematics-of-the-real-world-rp>
/b\ Bernie Cosell bernie@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep --
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