| May 2013 |
Turn an asteroid into a steroid with a broken keyboard
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| April 2013 |
Solving Snake, the classic video game
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| April 2013 |
Old MacDonald had a Perihelion
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| April 2013 |
Roman Numeral Lengths
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| April 2013 |
A case for recursion
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| March 2013 |
Rock, Paper and Scissors
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| March 2013 |
l33t speak words (Hex words part 2)
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| March 2013 |
You, me, and dead people (Hex words part 1)
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| March 2013 |
Hilbert Curves - fractal spacing filling fun
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| March 2013 |
Growing words, one letter at a time
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| February 2013 |
Inefficient rulers
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| February 2013 |
No 'L' quiz
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| January 2013 |
Consumer Electronics Show 2013
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| January 2013 |
Atomic typos - switching adjacent letters
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| January 2013 |
Wheel of Fortune puzzle solver - Win Big!
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| January 2013 |
Random or Magic? Can you fool a computer at generating random numbers?
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| December 2012 |
Trivial Wheel of Fortune bonus round – how lucky could you get?
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| December 2012 |
Are you worth more in dimes, quarters or nickels?
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| December 2012 |
How to mathematically select the best wife (or husband, or secretary …)
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| December 2012 |
Do you rename your digital photos?
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| December 2012 |
Elemental Words – words made entirely from chemical element symbols
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| November 2012 |
Fat fingers and atomic typos
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| November 2012 |
Discrete Cosine Transforms - How JPGs work, and fun secret images
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| November 2012 |
How to share secrets securely (without breaking plates)
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| November 2012 |
Where should you stand to answer three phones?
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| October 2012 |
Analysis of emoticons used on Twitter
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| October 2012 |
Prefixing 'S' to words to make new ones
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| October 2012 |
Septic Feline - Twenty word puzzles answered by adding an ‘S’
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| October 2012 |
Logic Puzzle - Gunman and colored dots
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| October 2012 |
Rats live on no evil star - Palindromes and mirror words
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| September 2012 |
Is your password too predictable?
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| September 2012 |
Which fits better - A round peg in a square hole, or a square peg in a round hole?
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| September 2012 |
Maximum Jeopardy! - What is the highest possible score in Jeopardy?
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| August 2012 |
The eight Queens problem
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| August 2012 |
“Uncopyrightable” – Distinct letter words
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| August 2012 |
Parrondo’s Paradox – Can two ugly parents make a beautiful child?
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| August 2012 |
"I had no idea". Ketchup, rockets, memes and pleated cups
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| July 2012 |
Wake up Redmond! (An open letter to Steve Balmer)
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| July 2012 |
The two eggs interview question
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| July 2012 |
Intransitive Dice - How to use math to win free drinks from your friends!
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| June 2012 |
Minesweeper First Click: Quality vs. Quantity [GUEST POST]
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| June 2012 |
The Golden Gate Bridge is wider at the top than the bottom
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| June 2012 |
How long are your shoelaces?
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| June 2012 |
Advanced Minesweeper
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| May 2012 |
Counterintuitive Conundrums
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| April 2012 |
Space - It's mindbogglingly big!
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| April 2012 |
Hangman - You've probably been playing it wrong!
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| March 2012 |
Benford's Law - Never try to defraud an engineer!
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| March 2012 |
CQCQ - Mixedup Morse Code
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| March 2012 |
Padlock Puzzle - Databases and words
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| March 2012 |
Analysis of Domain Names
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| March 2012 |
Steganography – How to secretly hide things
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| January 2012 |
State of the Union Address Analytics
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| January 2012 |
What is the probability of getting a Yahtzee?
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| January 2012 |
O! Say can you see … (Dating-mining the White House Visitor book)
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| January 2012 |
Facebook finished 2011 with 791 million accounts
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| January 2012 |
A geek plays darts
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| December 2011 |
Algorithm for playing Battleships
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| December 2011 |
Ukranian Missile Base Tour
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| December 2011 |
Mathematical analysis of the game of Candyland®
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| November 2011 |
Mathematical analysis of the game of RISK®
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| November 2011 |
Markov Chains, Monte-Carlo and Chutes & Ladders!
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| October 2011 |
Daily Deal Deluge
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| October 2011 |
Latest WorldWide FaceBook registration statistics
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| September 2011 |
LivingSocial and the Whole Foods Coupon
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| August 2011 |
Update on Worldwide facebook registrations per country
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| August 2011 |
728 million facebook accounts
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| June 2011 |
Microsoft, you suck!
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| May 2011 |
Price of soda (per gallon)
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| May 2011 |
Facebook passes 666 million accounts
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| May 2011 |
Why has social gaming become so popular?
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| April 2011 |
What is a body worth?
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| March 2011 |
National Pi Day
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| February 2011 |
Facebook shutdown in Egypt
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| January 2011 |
Analyzing sales data using names (Part 3)
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| January 2011 |
Data mining using just names. A study of names (Part 2)
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| January 2011 |
A rose by any other name. A study of names (Part 1)
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| December 2010 |
Generating sparks with recursion
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| December 2010 |
FaceBook Year End 2010
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| December 2010 |
Spot the connection
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| December 2010 |
Demographics of Social Gamers
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| November 2010 |
Laptop XOR iPad
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| November 2010 |
Facebook Worldwide demographics (Part 2)
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| November 2010 |
Facebook Worldwide demographics (Part 1)
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| November 2010 |
Smarter Filling
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| November 2010 |
All the Single Ladies …
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| November 2010 |
Digital Shakespeare (and data cleanliness)
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| November 2010 |
Mixed-up Mr. Darcy
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| October 2010 |
My trip to Chernobyl, Ukraine
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| July 2009 |
My computer plays better Bejeweled than I do
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| April 2009 |
A 'practical' use for Genetic Programming
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| January 2009 |
Play better poker in just five minutes
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