Vernal Equinox 2024 links

the best of the internet over the last season


Every Author as First Author
Problems with grading students on a curve
rotation with three shears
Roger Federer’s Neo Backhand in the 2017 Australian Open
52 cards win a dollar: You have 52 playing cards (26 red, 26 black). You draw cards one by one. A red card pays you a dollar. A black one fines you a dollar. You can stop any time you want. Cards are not returned to the deck after being drawn. What is the optimal stopping rule in terms of maximizing expected payoff?
Songs with parenthesis in the titles: or another analysis where Taylor Swift shows up as a statistical anomaly.
Thermodynamic Linear Algebra: Harmonic Oscillators ftw
Intelligent Machinery: Intelligence is a search problem
1012 and other such numbers
AOH1996: something to watch out for, Phase 1 Clinical Trials have begun