MadMath
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2019-04-29
Solitaire: Chance for Starting Duplicates
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In Klondike Solitaire, what's the chance for starting with two face-up cards of the same rank & color (what we might call "shad...
2019-04-22
Facebook Learning Debacle
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Yesterday, the New York times published an expose on how schools in certain (poor, rural) places are being used as guinea pigs and getting ...
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2019-02-11
Honeybee Addition and Subtraction
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Researchers in Australia and France claim to show honeybees learning to do symbolic addition and subtraction (really just incrementing and d...
2019-01-21
Computer-Based Naval Training Failures
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A fascinating article by a PhD candidate in military history: On the U.S. Navy's switch from face-to-face classrooms for training office...
2018-12-17
NY Times Magazine Finds C.I.'s Baffling
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Another journalist publicly declares their inability to understand the most basic math: in this case, confidence intervals . This is Statist...
2018-09-10
Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are From Nigeria?
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From 2012: Far-fetched tales of West African riches strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an advantage to the attacker, n...
2018-09-03
Dale Carnegie on Times Tables
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Here's an excerpt from Dale Carnegie's uber-famous book, How to Win Friends and Influence People (Part 4, Section 8): Clarence M....
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