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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

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
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