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The Monty Hall Problem is a rather famous brain teaser, a rare mathematical puzzle that entered pop culture so successfully it was featured in a movie. I’m not that interested in providing yet another explanation of its counterintuitive correct answer; there are dozens on the Internet, for example here and here and here and here and here. What fascinates me is why so many smart … Read more The Monty Hall Problem is cognitive Three-Card Monte
This post owes its existence to the excellent online tool MAPfrappe, which allows you to draw on a map of the Earth and then move it around; you can save your drawings, such as my outline of Canada. It took me a while to do, please feel free to play around with it to validate the … Read more Canada and the Mercator Projection: Latitude and Attitude
I’ll admit I’m not a huge sports fan, but I am a huge numbers fan, and sports produces a lot of those. It also produces a lot of analysts: after all, there’s lots of money riding on much of these numbers. So it’s a bit of a challenge to find something original, and by definition … Read more data boston celtics retired jersey
how many words in a clockwork orange Practice makes perfect; this is a replacement for the word cloud of this book I made two weeks ago, and I think it’s much better looking. It is still based on the original, iconic Penguin cover: A Clockwork Orange makes for an interesting word cloud, because so many of the … Read more word cloud clockwork orange by anthony