Can 10 heads in a row really occur in a coin toss? Or, can the lucky numbers in the lottery be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? We investigate the law of large numbers.
At a party with 23 guests, having two guests with the same birthday in more than 50 percent of cases may sound fairly unlikely to amateur mathematicians. Armed with statistical methods, party animal Mike Schilli sets out to prove this claim.
Markov chains model systems that jump from state to state with predetermined probabilities, but can they help write new columns like this one after learning from previously written articles?
Although I use Pygmynote on a daily basis, I haven't tweaked it for a while. Over the weekend, though, I finally got around to implementing a couple of small features as well as cleaning and tweaking the code.
Most command-line tools on Linux come with documentation accessible through the man command. But scrolling up and down the help file trying to figure out how to make a tool do what you want is not always the most efficient way to go. Enter Cheat, a simple Python-based tool that allows you to access cheatsheets for command-line tools.
