Monday, April 18, 2011
When Does It Start?
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So I'm driving to work the other day, and I'm stuck behind this car whose driver has decided that today, freeways shall be traversed...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
A Different Kind of Search
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Because I have a bad habit of imagining all sorts of bizarre, improbable scenarios , I dreamt up this one: Suppose I woke up in a strange to...
Thursday, February 17, 2011
A Little Learning (Game Theory, Part Deux)
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Here, as promised, is the dangerous thing. Suppose you're getting a sequence of playing cards, and you're trying to figure out som...
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Matching Up in Hyperspace (or, Thirty Dancing)
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Maybe it's because I've been writing about basketball a lot, but I thought today I'd do something a little different before con...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
A (Kind of) Gentle Introduction to Game Theory
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Prefatory to more basketball talk, I want to take a bit of time out to describe what I think is a rather elegant area of mathematics: game t...
Friday, January 28, 2011
How to Be Wrong, With Statistics!
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Please , just stop it . You're hurting me . Anyone who understands statistics at all cannot dispute that Kobe Bryant does not perform...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Voter Mixing Equals Criterion Mixing
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I'm going to talk about basketball and probability again. Wasn't that obvious from the title of this post? It's apparently ne...
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