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Facebook and the birthday paradox

This is one for math geeks with a Facebook account. I recently heard of an interesting probability problem called the Birthday Paradox. I think it was on the excellent Five Numbers series on BBC Radio 4 (or one of the 2 follow-up series). Anyway, the problem states that if you put 23 (or more) randomly [...]

Attack of the d2e Zombie Copy

The title of this post was inspired by the excellent A List Apart article by Erin Kissane (published on October 24, 2005). As Erin puts it:
“You’ve seen them around the web, these zombie sentences. They’re not hard to recognize: syntax slack and drooling, clauses empty of everything but a terrible hunger for human brains.”
The following [...]

xkcd on random numbers

Another gem from xkcd today:

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