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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

Can you meet me at the mall?

What is the greatest number of friends you're likely to meet if nobody deigns to coordinate?

Posted on July 22, 2025

Tags: maximum approximation

Can you weave the web?

What is the probability that two random points form a line that goes through a particular point $\mathbf{p}$?

Posted on June 8, 2025

Tags: indicators geometry pdfs

How long is the river?

What should we expect from coincidental diagonals of contiguous spaces?

Posted on May 23, 2025

Tags: recursion generating-functions keyboard-problems

Can you permeate the bipyramid?

How many paths can you find?

Posted on May 18, 2025

Tags: counting recursion search
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