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I'm playing along.. Does anyone else find the site terribly unreliable? And I just noticed SkyQuake is playing again :)

Re: Fed Police - Hit & Run in Israel http://www.afp.gov.au/media_releases/national/2010/response_to_allegations_that_an_australian_embassy_car_containing_afp_investigators_hit_a_cyclist.html

Sorry, I didn't read your answer correctly (The formatting confused me a bit). Seems to make sense and covers all possible outcomes. Using 4 groups of 3 results in the unsolveable case that I got to.

bellenuit, with that process you seem to end up at the third weighting with 3 possibilities... If you split the balls into 4 groups of 3; First Weighting: Weight 1,2,3 against 4,5,6. If not equal: Weight heavier group against 7,8,9. If this turns out to be equal, the ball is lighter...

So discrete random iid numbers then. Well, its a conditional probability; let Y be the observed value, so Y(1) is the first observation, Y(2) is the second etc. So the Probability that an observation is the maximum is P(Y(1))=1/1000 P(Y(2))=1/999 given (Y(2)>Y(2)) otherwise 0 P(Y(3))=1/998 given...

You cannot use this, as the range is unknown/infinite to the person answering yes or no. ie. We could assume that a single observation of a number generted is Y, so it could be said that Y is continuously uniformly distributed, Y~U(-X,X). Ie. Y doesn't have to take an integer value? So you...

Scan Pan non stick here, found it to be great so far. Had it for about a year now. I've never really had a non stick pan last too long, eventually the teflon/coating seems to start to flake away and its time to start again. Sure stuff isn't sticking, but as soon as that coating is coming off...

Congrats on the grad position! Which department if you dont mind me asking? I applied at Treasury but wasnt successfull but haven't finished from my second degree anyway.. and have a cushy job in the Public service already :P Good luck finding a place for that much.. unless thats what you want...

Optus are charging $9.90~ on top of the plans to enable the iphone has a tethered modem. I haven't been able to turn tethering on with virgin because they use the optus network and its coming up with an error, so one thing to watch out for.

I picked up the old 16gig last week from virgin on a $45 cap plan, but it only includes 50mb of data, so will probably add an additional 300mb for $10 a month. Still much better then allot of the other plans. Not sure if they are still doing this deal.. Has anyone used the comsec app on their...

Nudge - Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstien

As bellenuit was alluding to, you need to look at some form of purchasing power parity (PPP) list, comparing a 'basket' of goods, or the 'real exchange rate'. How this would help you import items here to take advantage of these price discrepancies probably doesn't really help, as there are allot...

Yup, been a good season so far, managed to catch every race this season. I dont know if its been closer racing out the front, but there has definitely been some good scraps in the middle. Its been great to see how quick Red Bull have been. I too think Mark should get a win or 2 this season... I...

Thanks, yeah that was one of the only problems I could come up with... I use to have a commonwealth account like that, i think it was called a 'reward saver' or something with only 1 withdrawl a month, but I think it has either been fazed out/replaced... not sure about other banks products though.