The Monty Hall Game
A friend brought up the classic Monty Hall problem. During our discussions, I realized it’s interesting to put the problem under the lens of game theory.
A friend brought up the classic Monty Hall problem. During our discussions, I realized it’s interesting to put the problem under the lens of game theory.
Everybody procrastinates, and everyone hates it. Much ink has been spilled to teach people how to stop delaying work. Here, I want to offer a logician’s view.
Unique Rectangle
In Hong Kong, there’s a variant of rock paper scissors called 左一拳右一拳, which can be roughly translated as “left shoot, right shoot”. In this post, I’ll walk t...
Last week, we had an incident at work. Both the bug itself and the debugging process were mildly interesting, and I’ll describe both briefly below, and discu...
One day I came across some code that looked like this (paraphrased):
I spent the past few weekends building a multiplayer minesweeper game on the web. It’s now live, so get a nerdy friend and try it out! In this post, I’ll lis...
Here’s a well-written intro to audio fingerprinting. One part of the article contains a clever trick that seems generally useful and interesting to think abo...