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Javelin toss

How should you counter the tosser who doesn't know you know they're cheating?

Posted on January 1, 2026

Tags: nash-equilibrium recursion

Covariant derivative

Where does it come form, how do we find it?

Posted on December 27, 2025

Tags: general-relativity differential-geometry

First passage time

How long until a particle diffuses to $x$?

Posted on December 10, 2025

Tags: statistical-mechanics first-passage-time

Can you fling the fractal darts?

How many points will you asymptotically approach?

Posted on December 8, 2025

Tags: recursion fractals linearity-of-expectation

Gaussian skiers

How safe are you for winning the first heat?

Posted on November 18, 2025

Tags: scaling approximation

Garden hose

How far is the thirsty random tree from the gushing random hose?

Posted on November 16, 2025

Tags: symmetry

Randy hall

How should you move in order to be unpredictable?

Posted on November 8, 2025

Tags: recursion master-equation

Robot baseball

How common can league office scheming rig full counts to be?

Posted on November 1, 2025

Tags: nash-equilibria optimization

High low

Where will you be when you can't stop winning?

Posted on September 7, 2025

Tags: expectation self-consistency distributions

Robot road trip

How much time will you lose avoiding a tragic collision?

Posted on August 1, 2025

Tags: kinematics expectation asymptotics
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