Can you solve the basketball robot riddle? - Dan Katz

“Skimmed an article about AI and overpromised” - every tech company in the 2020s

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

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

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

"oh wow a riddles i love ridd" ALGEBRA

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.

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

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

ANOTHER RIDDLE!!!!! I LOVE THESE!

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

Riddles so good it will put the riddler to shame

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!”

I realized the answer was going to involve some series shenanigans and didn't want to bother with that, so i looked at it differently: I made it so that the robot has a 50% chance of scoring on their first shot, and you set q to be 0 after. This garuntees that the player will score eventually, and so the total proability of winning is just based on the first throw of the robot and player. The probability of the robot winning on their first shot is (1-p) * q, and so if we set that probability to 0.5, we get q = 0.5 / (1 - p). And so you set the initial q to be this for the robot, and if it misses, set q to 0, garunteeing the player wins 50% of the time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

If there’s one video I NEVER skip from Ted-Ed, it’s the riddle videos, they are always just so interesting and I always have the riddles playlist on in the background when I’m doing other things. Even tho I could never solve the riddles, I’m always so fascinated by the solution. Ted-Ed riddle videos are at the very top of S-Tier videos to watch for me, I do wish they’d upload riddle videos more frequently tho, but as long as Ted-Ed keeps posting riddle videos I can handle long gaps between those videos 😎