Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The good news is...

Lots to look forward to, the sun rises tomorrow!

At one point Kris said this over the phone to a friend back in the states and I found it very amusing. As I was thinking of blog titles it came back to me. In Japan (also the land of the rising sun) we are 17 hours ahead (of PST) and today here is USA tomorrow, and the good news is... the sun does rise!



I also found that there is a statistical problem called "the sunrise problem" which is the type of question posed on the first day of a statistics class by a quizzical professor and is "what is the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow?" Upon further investigation I learned if you observe 1000 days that the sun does rise, then the certainty that it will tomorrow is 99.9% and this probability will increase as you see and include more days that the sun successfully rises. However if you account for prior knowledge of gravity rules the answer is dramatically different says Xu Cui, a researcher at Stanford University. I am going to guess this dramatic difference is also in our favor.


So see you tomorrow!









I am sorry to say this is actually a sunset, but the shot in the sunrise direction is not as good, so forgive me.



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1 comment:

  1. I want to see both the sunrise and the sunset when I am there. So Beautiful!

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