Satire Bust: The Wagers of Money

Effective martingales with restricted wagers

Computable randomness is a central notion in the theory of algorithmic randomness. An infinite sequence of bits x is computably random if no computable betting strategy can win an infinite amount of money by betting on the values of the bits of x. In the classical model, the betting strategies considered take realvalued bets. We study two restricted models, where the strategies considered take ...

Subversive Satire: the Glasgow Verses

The Glasgow Verses constitutes a formal anomaly in terms of genesis, appearance and meaning. Discovered only in 1995, the verses are part of a larger text, the so-called Hunter Codex, a manuscript MaruliÊ wrote and dedicated to his friend Dmine PapaliÊ. Closer investigation revealed that this collection of poems had been entirely overlooked by traditional scholarship, and that it was neither ch...

A satire on the influenza of 1803.

ONE OF the coloured engraved satires in the Wellcome collection is An Address of thanks from the Faculty to the Right Hon.ble Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to this country (Fig. 1). It was designed by Temple West, an amateur artist whose name appears on the cross-bar of the commode on which the figure of Influenzy is seated. The print was published by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly on 20 April 1...

On the Positive Expected Utility of Combination Wagers

Satire for Dummies, Ver. 2.0