A Brain Teaser of an Obituary

(nytimes.com)

12 points | by droidjj 2 days ago ago

4 comments

  • quuxplusone 19 hours ago ago

    Stop clickbait: Steve Selvin, originator of the "Monty Hall Problem," has died.

    The obituary doesn't link directly to it, but Selvin's original letter-to-the-editor of "The American Statistician" 29.1 (Feb 1975) about the "Monte [sic] Hall Problem" is reproduced at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2683689 .

    • droidjj 17 hours ago ago

      "A Brain Teaser of an Obituary" was the original title of this article.

  • hughdbrown 18 hours ago ago

    Wow, this is a new one. If you try to look at this with the archive.is link [1], the article is covered with a pink-lavender suppository that obscures the text. If you try to remove it from the HTML with DevTools, it *automatically reappears*. I guess this is the latest step in the Paywall Wars.

    [1] https://archive.is/rOVsN

    • gabrielsroka 18 hours ago ago

      I have a free account without a subscription. If you look at the original, it uses pink tombstone-shaped objects. That's probably what you're seeing.