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Ep. 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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The Basel Problem - Is Basel Basel?

So there's another problem called the Basel problem, which is one over one squared. That converges to like six over pi squared. So you could actually make that exponent very close to one, and it's still converges. But if you make it one, it goes to infinity. Right. It just needs a tiny nudge. And so you could make a distribution out of that because that is also that converges.

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