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Math

Trick or Treat…. or Regret

Probability; Difficulty: easy Can You Hand Out All The Candy? This week’s Riddler Classic is a relatively easy Stochastic Optimization question. The Classic reproduced: For Halloween this year, you have

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Math

Lotería winner

Probability; Difficulty: medium Probability of exactly one winner in the fifth round This week’s Riddler Classic is a conditional probability question. The Classic reproduced: A thousand people are playing Lotería, also

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Book Reviews

Existential Physics

Sabine Hossenfelder ★★★★★ 4/5 Science A refreshing read: A big improvement over her first book Sabine Hossenfelder is a contrarian physicist that doesn’t shy away from calling out research that

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