Comments on: Amazing Race Asia - Randomness

By: natasha

natasha — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:21:26 +0000

first, i thougt the winners are San-Fran. because they’re very strong, Sandy, he has a hugh body-he’s like machine, Francesca, she’s good but she’s a litle bit bad tempered- she’s swearing sometimes- remember when San-Fran on the last position because they failed counting (i don’t know potato or bean)?

and the second is Andrew-Syeon. they always quick when they doing their tasks. always teamates.

Joe Jer- Zab is weaknes team, esp. Zabrina.
M&M brother, i love them! they always keep passion when something wrong with their taxi. they always smile, and funny!!

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:02:39 +0000

I never forget. Especially who helped me and who didn’t.

By: azxel

azxel — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:40:32 +0000

wah.. tiba tiba got my name mentioned!!
I’m so honored!

say.. hows things with you man? Long time no hear from you… hope all is well.

By: Antworten zum Universum » Amazing Race Asia - Who Will Win?

Antworten zum Universum » Amazing Race Asia - Who Will Win? — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:06:47 +0000

[...] Let us first review some amazing stuff, which will mostly end on questions. Previously, on the Amazing Race Asia…my blog, I had pondered the randomness of the race. That was part one of the randomness… this is not part 2 (because part 2 entails karma, chaos theory, and the like). This is a question of who will win in the coming finale. [...]

By: Antworten zum Universum » I’m Tired, and I Type Too Fast

Antworten zum Universum » I’m Tired, and I Type Too Fast — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:54:31 +0000

[...] Ah… I apparently typed too fast. That was my conversation with cfgt the other night he was helping with the probabilities of the Amazing Race Asia. I had something like 17 MSN conversation windows and I was typing code, and different conversations all at light speed. [...]

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:38:47 +0000

I agree.. Statistics is fun, especially when you mess around and get conclusions from Stats. I used Excel just because it has beautiful outputs, and I can’t handle 2D Arrays without visual help

Plus, I don’t have Matlab or R.

By: cfgt

cfgt — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:42:19 +0000

Statistics is fun. Although I’d have to say that using Excel was like the worst possible choice for a simulation like this.

By: I-Rene

I-Rene — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:32:00 +0000

sigh… statistics AGAIN =.=” i would rather not comment anything AT ALL.. and i dun watch ARA (dun think i’ve watched a single complete episode.. oh well

By: The Princess

The Princess — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:28:59 +0000

Although I’ve only watched ONE episode of the Amazing Race Asia, I think I get a rough picture about it from your blog entry. I think it is interesting that Andrew and Syeon got it on their first try. Sometimes, you don’t really have to overthink things. Why waste time trying to figure out the probability of probabilities and their whatchamacallits? Life’s too short for that. Do it like the champions (in this case: Andrew and Syeon): Follow your dreams!

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:48:00 +0000

Arnie: I’ve been pointing out that Andrew’s dream may not be random after all. And yes, you’re right, Zabrina and Joe Jer did narrow the chances of getting into the wrong carriage, but sooner or later, everyone did the same, so the probabilities shrunk tremendously. This only went on to help the M&M Brothers. As for order in chaos, it’s called chaos theory lol. It may be chaotic, because we’re a) looking at things in a wrong scale, or b) the Quantum Butterfly decided to flap its wings. And yes, the closest sense of describing it in a totally normal totally humane way is to describe it as Karma.

Pelf: Yes. It IS possible.