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You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor (wired.com)

2026-03-14 | by Rhett Allain | get Pi Approximation Needle Set → | tags: buffon’s needle, geometry, probability

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Points on a ring: An interactive walkthrough of a popular math problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-02 | get Math Problem Ring → | tags: circle, math, competition

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Speculative Sampling Explained (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-04 | by Saibo Geng | get Neural Network → | tags: distribution, probability, residual

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Simulating the Ladybug Clock Puzzle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Austin Z. Henley | get Ladybug Clock → | tags: answer, numbers, position

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Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Eugene Yan | get Recommendation Systems → | tags: evaluation, model, probability

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Beating the House for the Love of Math (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-09 | get Number Cruncher → | tags: card, cards, count

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Website Plays the Lottery Every Second, Puts the Pitiless Nature of Probability on Full Display (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-08 | get Lottery Wheel → | tags: display, lottery, lottery second

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A two-person method to simulate die rolls (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-05 | get Die Roll Simulator → | tags: angular, method, numbers

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A two-person method to simulate die rolls (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-05 | get Die Roll Simulator → | tags: angular, method, numbers

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Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-02 | get Tree → | tags: chunk, plant, plants

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A coin flip by any other name (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: normal, probability, problem

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A Coin Flip by Any Other Name (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: normal, probability, problem

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The sisters “paradox” – counter-intuitive probability (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: 25, boy, girl

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Uncertain<T> (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Getting Things Done book → | tags: let, probability, speed

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The sisters "paradox" – counter-intuitive probability (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: 25, boy, girl

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Important machine learning equations (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: array, np, practical

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The Most Important Machine Learning Equations: A Comprehensive Guide (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: array, np, practical

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Backpropagating through a maze with candle and WASM (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get political science book → | tags: action, position, probability

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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Dot → | tags: nootropic, nootropics, people

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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Dot → | tags: nootropic, nootropics, people

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New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by University Of Bath | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: individuals, iq, make

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The probability of a hash collision (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Chromebook → | tags: birthday, collision, frac

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The Probability of a Hash Collision (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Chromebook → | tags: birthday, collision, frac