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Gord Downey “Chancellor”

With 1,517 listeners and 24,962 plays at Last.fm, Coke Machine Glow was the first solo album released — in 2001 — by Gordon Downie, lead singer for The Tragically Hip.

Coke Machine Glow, the album, has been written up at Wikipedia.  Also, pay The Tragically Hip a visit at Last.fm or at Wikipedia.

Disambiguation: cokemachineglow is a music digest (no relation to the Gord Downey album or Gord Downey’s book of poetry by that name).

posted : Monday, July 21st, 2008

reblogged from : WoopWoop

My Weekly Top 10 Artists at Last.fm (20.7.2008)

  1. Sparklehorse 225
  2. The Jesus and Mary Chain 165
  3. Mystified 117
  4. Brian Eno & John Cale 115
  5. Gregor Samsa 97
  6. Songs To Sleep To 81
  7. Horchata 75
  8. Supergrass 65
  9. Andy Partridge & Harold Budd 61
  10. A Hawk and a Hacksaw 54
with the most played track being Songs To Sleep To’s 2-13-08 with 21 plays.

posted : Sunday, July 20th, 2008

posted : Sunday, July 20th, 2008

posted : Sunday, July 20th, 2008

posted : Saturday, July 19th, 2008

In probability theory, the Kelly criterion, or Kelly formula, is a formula used to maximize the long-term growth rate of repeated plays of a given gamble that has positive expected value. It was described by J. L. Kelly, Jr, in a 1956 issue of the Bell System Technical Journal. The formula specifies the percentage of the current bankroll to be bet at each iteration of the game. The Kelly system maximizes the growth rate in the long run, and therefore also minimizes the risk of ruin, but that risk is not zero. Using the Kelly system cannot result in a bankroll that is identically $0, but the value of the bankroll can approach arbitrarily close to $0, and so a finite probability of ruin does exist. An assumption of the formula is that currency and bets are infinitely divisible, which is not a concern for practical purposes if the bankroll is large enough.

posted : Friday, July 18th, 2008

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posted : Friday, July 18th, 2008

reblogged from : Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

posted : Friday, July 18th, 2008