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NCAA quota bracket

I'll take one of each.

Posted on March 26, 2023

Tags: counting symmetry tournaments

Fast times at the marble track

It won't be long before this marble's at your door

Posted on March 12, 2023

Tags: optimality conservation-of-energy calculus

Sicilian solitaire

There's nothing to do and there's nothing to win

Posted on February 19, 2023

Tags: recursion approximation

The chance in our stars

A cool puzzle for planes that fly at $\approx 0\,\text{mph}.$

Posted on February 11, 2023

Tags: spherical-geometry distributions projection

Keep on singing

Will you get to zero bottles of beer on the wall before someone loses their cool?

Posted on February 3, 2023

Tags: recursion expectation markov

Chain of squares

How long can you keep your square away from the covetous origin?

Posted on January 28, 2023

Tags: fixed-point dynamics jane-street

Drone delivery

How much shorter as the crow flies?

Posted on January 21, 2023

Tags: expectation geometry integration

The Dark Forest

How long will you wait to get off your assemblers?

Posted on January 8, 2023

Tags: optimality

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
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