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1.
Gambling to Optimize Expected Median Bankroll
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
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1 point
by
octonion
on Sept 4, 2019
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2.
Is Tokyo Right About How to Use Escalators?
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github.com/octonion
)
4 points
by
octonion
on Dec 26, 2018
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Recursively counting the number of Blackjack hands given the dealer's card
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4 points
by
octonion
on Sept 30, 2018
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4.
The Impossible Dream: Computing e to 116000 Places on a Personal Computer (1980)
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archive.org
)
2 points
by
octonion
on Aug 31, 2016
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5.
What are the most beautiful Math Olympiad problems?
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3 points
by
octonion
on July 27, 2016
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6.
What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team?
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4 points
by
octonion
on April 25, 2016
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1 comment
7.
From conservation of energy to the principle of least action: A story line
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eftaylor.com
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3 points
by
octonion
on March 29, 2016
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1 comment
8.
An Enormous Number of Kilograms
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
)
4 points
by
octonion
on Oct 15, 2015
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9.
New analysis shows over 99 percent of the women on Ashley Madison were fake
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extremetech.com
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22 points
by
octonion
on Aug 28, 2015
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1 comment
10.
How has Peru's IMO performance improved so drastically?
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1 point
by
octonion
on July 22, 2015
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11.
Power Rankings: Looking at a Very Simple Method
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
)
1 point
by
octonion
on July 15, 2015
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12.
How Unfair Are the NFL's Overtime Rules?
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
)
1 point
by
octonion
on Jan 19, 2015
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13.
Young Alan Turing and the Arctangent
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
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16 points
by
octonion
on Jan 8, 2015
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3 comments
14.
Hockey Analytics Workshop at CMU
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pensburgh.com
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1 point
by
octonion
on Nov 10, 2014
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15.
1st digit to end, gallons to liters. Smallest example has 382614539 digits
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sagemath.org
)
1 point
by
octonion
on Nov 6, 2014
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16.
Seeing Red: Stanford V. Harvard – The Harvard Crimson
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thecrimson.com
)
4 points
by
octonion
on Nov 4, 2014
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17.
Puzzler develops game-changing Go First dice (2012)
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theguardian.com
)
1 point
by
octonion
on Sept 1, 2014
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18.
Extreme Moneyball: The Houston Astros Go All In on Data Analysis
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)
64 points
by
octonion
on Aug 31, 2014
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9 comments
19.
Intel Broadwell Chips Are Expected to Be in New Chromebooks
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androidheadlines.com
)
2 points
by
octonion
on Aug 31, 2014
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20.
Numbers, toys and music: A conversation with Manjul Bhargava
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maths.org
)
5 points
by
octonion
on Aug 30, 2014
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21.
Learn One Weird Trick and Easily Solve the Product-Sum Problem
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
)
5 points
by
octonion
on Aug 30, 2014
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22.
Finding the Best Book Quotes: Power Ranking Goodreads
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
)
7 points
by
octonion
on July 9, 2014
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23.
Supercomputers: Game on
(
economist.com
)
4 points
by
octonion
on March 11, 2014
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1 comment
24.
An MLB team is apparently doing in-game graph analysis
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gigaom.com
)
2 points
by
octonion
on March 11, 2014
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25.
Mining the First 3.5 Million California Unclaimed Property Records
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
)
34 points
by
octonion
on Feb 21, 2013
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7 comments
26.
Sergey Brin, Please Pick up your Paychecks
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angrystatistician.blogspot.com
)
220 points
by
octonion
on Feb 19, 2013
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