Can you solve the basketball riddle? - Dan Katz

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You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re excited to demonstrate its capabilities. Until you read an advertisement: “See the Dunk-O-Matic face human players and automatically adjust its skill to create a fair game for every opponent!” That’s not what you were told to create. Can you recalibrate your robot to make it a fair match? Dan Katz shows how.

Lesson by Dan Katz, directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio.

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[reihanasabrina]

“Skimmed an article about AI and overpromised”

- every tech company in the 2020s

[pebrrr]

I'd stop whatever I'm doing for TED-Ed riddles.

[Paul-A]

You should set it to 100% and if anyone complains, explain they don't understand probability

[MetronaJ]

I like how this ends with the character getting a better job

[yususfayan]

"oh wow a riddles i love ridd"
ALGEBRA

[Square_Peg]

This isn't a riddle, this is a math problem

[horizontal]

Cool robot and puzzle but I’m more interested in the puzzle of how she managed to find a better work place and navigate all that legal trouble.

[drybowser]

If I would get a dollar for each time I see brilliant sponsoring a video, I would afford that basketball robot

[carlosgutierrez]

I was literally doing my math homework, finished and wanted to take a break with a riddle. I see this and think “I JUST DID THIS!”

[perezah]

I like that the robots are called Dunk-o-Matic's

[idoipyt]

Riddles so good it will put the riddler to shame

[Revanaught]

This felt more like a complicated math problem than a riddle...

[rahulrg]

You know the riddle was tough when you can't even understand the answer after it has been explained.

[superkiller]

I literally just completed an algebra II course with the unit of probability in it and then I watch this video on the same day and nailed it in the head. They were right when they said we'd use those skills in real life.

[mack]

Taught some students probability this morning and here I am learning something new about it.

[Becky_Cooling]

Can you solve...
Me :*clicks immediately*

[zmaj]

I did the first approach, but when I got the suspiciously clean answer of success/failure, I figured there was a more elegant reason.

I like how mundane the end of the story of this riddle is compared to the usual dragons and aliens and whatnot.

[justhere]

0:02 Probably not relationship advice... maybe.

[treefrogg]

Step 1: Confirm that you have green eyes

Step 2: Ask the basketball playing robot to leave

[SanketAlekar]

For probability p > 0.5, you can change the game and have the robot go first, with probability q where q/1-q = p . So q = p/1+p which will have a solution for all p.