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If I remember correctly, Brendan Sullivan had a reputation as a TA for Concepts of Mathematics at CMU as "Math Jesus", not sure if that was a testament to his pedagogical skills or…

This stuck out to me too, glad someone else noticed it. Just in case people aren't aware, the law of large numbers is a phenomenon related to repeated random experiments, saying th…

I've used Character AI ( https://beta.character.ai ) and been seriously impressed with the roleplaying experience that's provided there. A UX feature that really helped was the abi…

Sigma algebras are useful even in a finite setting where we don't have to worry about pathologies. Think of them as modelling the lack of complete information in a probabilistic se…

I've had some of the biggest belly laughs with a group of friends playing a game of microscope, watching as silly one-offs from the start took a life of their own and mutated over …

In this example, you're not living on the surface of a donut shaped planet, you're living in a 3D space (not a surface!) that is the 3D equivalent of a donut. Pacman lives on the s…

Normal is actually a stronger claim than "contains any finite string as a substring". That normal numbers contain any finite string as a substring is a straightforward consequence …