2 papers
math.PR2026
Using the Cover Guessing Game Strategy to Predict the Results of Stochastic Processes
James D. Stein
Cover originally proposed a game in which Bob wrote two numbers on pieces of paper and allowed Alice to pick one and look at it. Cover then showed, as Blackwell is thought to have…
math.HO2026
Blackwells Demon: Postdiction and Prediction in Random Walks
James Stein
Maxwells Demon is a mythical being, first described by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell (although named Maxwells Demon by Lord Kelvin). Maxwell used it in a thought experiment to…