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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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Whilst relating an incident with my antivirus program AVAST which had blocked a DLL on the computer without reason I was explaining what had happened to my partner. The TV was playing the remake 'The day the earth stood still' and Kathy Bates as Regina Jackson was uttering the phrase '...a vast....' in mid sentence just as I was relating the problem with the antivirus program AVAST!
Date submitted:Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:48:38 +0000Coincidence ID:7457
