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On Being Random

I read this article a while ago but just found it again when discussion a brain teaser with Jon. One of my favorite parts: Our brains are so hardwired to see patterns, it’s devilishly hard for most of us to generate random behavior. Indeed, take a minute and try to write down a random sequence […]

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Man, I wish I had enough time for this: the MCM/ICM Modeling Contest. You have 96 hours to come up with a model solving your choice of one of two modeling questions. One of last year’s questions:  Airlines are free to seat passengers waiting to board an aircraft in any order whatsoever. It has become […]

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I found this free graphing software which rocks, in my opinion. It is Ivan Johansen’s Graph. A very useful tool, in my opinion. I used it just last week to save me in one of my programs by interpolating a function I needed for a series of data.

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Testing…Combinatorial HW2

Just in case anyone wants to look at my homework, I’m testing WordPress and how it handles PDFs. I made some scans of my homework since Sarah and I share a book. Here they are if anyone wants them. Combinatorial HW2.  I’m sure I’ll get in trouble for this

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