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Fun fact: Andrea comes from the Greek word andrós, which means man/male. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea#Origin_of_the_name

I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing out my misunderstanding of US elections. So what is the main difference? size of districts (constituencies) by a factor of ~10? Gerrymande…

I think the reason why US has two parties is that most States apply FPTP at a district level, but then also have a winner-takes-all at State level based on the districts result. So…

Reservoir sampling or Algorithm R. It allows you to randomly choose a sample of k items (with equal probability) from an "infinite" stream of items. At first it sounds impossible, …

Indirect source in my case: http://kottke.org/17/08/the-shyness-of-trees