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A while back, I wrote a blog post about the Bayesian estimation of multinomial parameter ratios. That post used simulation to show that …

From No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal, by Merrill B. Twining: There is a little paragraph in nearly every textbook on …

Like many people, I’ve been playing some chess recently. Specifically, I’ve been playing on lichess, which is a free and open-source …

This post continues the series of posts looking at the 2020 Crossfit Games. The previous post that covers events 3 and 4 is here. The …

This post continues the series of posts looking at the 2020 Crossfit Games. The previous post that covers events 1 and 2 is here. The …

The Crossfit Games are happening in 2020, though in a different format. The first 7 events will be completed by the athletes (30 men …

Some time ago, I took an exploratory look at the BLL (Basic Library List) published by the MAA (Mathematical Association of America). …

One of my favorite integrals is found in Mechanics by Landau and Lifshitz. In the context of figuring out to what extent the potential …

The Frank-Robinson tiling is an inflation tiling with 4 shapes (“prototiles”) and 4 rules or substitutions that govern how …

Elon Musk has been in the news recently, and when I saw that he appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), I became curious about the …