Mindyourdecisions - mindyourdecisions.com
General Information:
Latest News:
How The Economist entices students into a Prisoner’s Dilemma 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Periodically The Economist will try to drum up subscriptions with promotional offers for students. The ad copy tends to promise the magazine will make the student smarter with “world-class insights” t...
Links 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
1. Conflicting viewpoints: Noise distracts us from thinking versus Coffee shop noises boost creativity! (I personally prefer quiet and have never worked in a coffee shop). 2. Why honey lasts forever ...
Monday puzzle: divisible by 3 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Let’s play a little game. Write down 5 positive whole numbers. Any 5 will do. If you hand me the list, there is an interesting thing I can do. I can always select 3 of the numbers you wrote and their...
Links 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
1. Math class found Double Stuff Oreos only contain 1.86 of “the stuff” 2. The man who invented modern probability. This article does a wonderful job of explaining the Borel–Kolmogorov paradox in non...
Advice to college freshmen: you are not so smart any more 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Years ago when I packed my bags to go to Stanford, I remember getting a lot of advice. Study hard. Don’t party (too much). Remember to exercise. Stay in touch. Most advice made college sound fun. But...
Is it Christmas already? 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Last year retailers broke out the Christmas decorations in October. This year they decided that August–before summer is even over–was the right time to bring up the holiday season. Here are a few sig...
Links 21 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
1. Nassim Taleb on stupidity of comparing deaths from terrorism to deaths from furniture, etc. This is Taleb’s response to the many articles that compare the risk of terrorism to other areas, such as,...
How can they sell toothpaste for 1 cent on Amazon.com? Look at the fine print! 21 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
The internet was supposed to make comparison shopping easier. Instead, online merchants have simply found more creative ways to obfuscate the total cost. The other day I was searching for toothpaste ...
Links 20 Aug 2013 | 09:13 am
1. The math of rotating pictures. The example of rotating a coin in MS Paint using shears is just amazing. I agree with the last sentence of the article: “I’m a geek, but I think this is the coolest t...
How to win at Connect Four every time! A link to a game solver that you can use on your smartphone or computer 20 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
image by Corrine Brown, CC BY 2.0 I’ve written over 300 posts about game theory, and mostly the articles are about how game theory can be used to solve problems in business, politics, or real life–in...
