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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 …
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Here is an interesting problem having to do with dice and probability. Take a normal, fair die. Instead of labeling the faces with the …
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It is interesting to look at what happens when you try to “fit” the absolute value function using polynomials. Pick some …
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Building on my last post, here is another way to construct a parabola using a collection of straight lines. First, the description, …
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There are several ways to draw a parabola using straight lines. If you get a chance, you should try one sometime - it is always …
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The problem Consider a function (f: [0, 1] \to \mathbb{R}) that is continuous with (f(0) = f(1)). It is possible to prove that for each …
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“Code golf” is the practice of trying to solve a specific problem or implement a specific algorithm in the smallest …
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## Warning: package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 4.3.3 ## Warning: package 'janitor' was built under R version 4.3.3 ## Warning: …
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In chapter 1 of their 2016 book Computer Age Statistical Inference, Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie use as an example a study of kidney …
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Consider a multinomial distribution with \(c\) categories and associated probabilities \(\pi_i\), where \(i = 1,...,c\). It is often …
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