https://mahurin.us/robtasm/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:robert.s.mahurin@gmail.com">rob mahurin</a> Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:07:37 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://mahurin.us/robtasm/posts/2025/07/01/death-is-failure/rob mahurin<p>In the probability of discrete events like coin tosses, you usually write $p$ to represent the probability of a success and $q=1-p$ to represent the probability of failure.</p> <p><img alt="actuarial text" src="https://mahurin.us/robtasm/posts/2025/07/01/death-is-failure/assets/death-is-failure.png"></p>deathnotationprobabilityhttps://mahurin.us/robtasm/posts/2025/07/01/death-is-failure/Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:57:28 GMT