{"id":5541,"date":"2010-05-20T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2010-05-20T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T08:00:29","slug":"the-half-monty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5541","title":{"rendered":"The Half-Monty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/05\/17\/non-normalizable-probability-measures-for-fun-and-profit\/\">Non-Normalizable Probability Measures for Fun and Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An eccentric benefactor holds two envelopes, and explains to you that they each contain money; one has two times as much cash as the other one. You are encouraged to open one, and you find $4,000 inside. Now your benefactor \u2014 who is a bit eccentric, remember \u2014 offers you a deal: you can either keep the $4,000, or you can trade for the other envelope. Which do you choose?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Normalizable Probability Measures for Fun and Profit An eccentric benefactor holds two envelopes, and explains to you that they each contain money; one has two times as much cash as the other one. You are encouraged to open one, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5541\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}