Wikipedia will Eat us All
April 26th, 2006I was reading somebody’s description of their job interview at Google, and apparently they asked him something to do with the birthday paradox:
you are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?
And I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be funny if the birthday paradox had its own entry in Wikipedia?
Birthday paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Honestly, it’s becoming a little frightening.