Secret Santa administrivia How long must you wait to pawn your candle off on some poor relative? Posted on December 17, 2022 Tags: approximation linearity-of-expectation
Soccer Brackets Who will win when anything is possible? Posted on December 11, 2022 Tags: uniform-probability rankings tournaments
Soccer Buses How many trips will the poor saps have to make? Posted on December 7, 2022 Tags: recursion symmetry linearity-of-expectation
Reasonable Sandwich How often will the hand of fate deliver a reasonable slice to the undercard? Posted on November 13, 2022 Tags: parameter-space geometry probability
Speedy Hammer Will the giant hammer be going fast enough when it hits the big elf door? Posted on November 13, 2022 Tags: conservation-of-energy optimization vectors
Neurotic Halloween How close can you get to perfect candy disbursement? Posted on October 29, 2022 Tags: expectation dynamic-programming optimality
Loteria lightning One solitary soul won Mexican bingo, what are the chances? Posted on October 29, 2022 Tags: counting
Birthday collisions How many people in this room have stolen your birthday? Posted on October 15, 2022 Tags: approximation recursion combinatorics
Sock wash Will you be able to fit all your lonely socks on the chair? Posted on October 9, 2022 Tags: recursion scaling