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Fall colors

When's the best time to go leaf peeping?

Posted on November 6, 2022

Tags: bayes

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

Letters from the sea

How many letters are you going to have to read?

Posted on September 25, 2022

Tags: expectation scaling translation

Too many anigrams

How many generations of humanity will pass before anigrams has a repeat?

Posted on September 19, 2022

Tags: data-structures barcoding

Traffic groups

How many will go as fast as they want if everyone goes as fast as they want?

Posted on August 29, 2022

Tags: occlusion counting ensemble

Morning walkabout

Will the friendly ant have an unusual experience?

Posted on July 26, 2022

Tags: recursion counting waiting-time coarse-graining jane-street

Hide and go seek tower

Now you see me, now you don't

Posted on July 3, 2022

Tags: geometry approximation physics materials
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