I don't remember infinite series being this interesting in school

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Playing against The Tetris God

Sam Hughes has created a version of Tetris that always gives you the worst possible piece.

Play HATETRIS or read more about it.

The author's high score is 5 lines.

A princess story

Kristian Lum explores the consequences of a novel probabilistic model of dating:

Let there be n princes in the pool, the i^th of whom has utility to the princess p_i. p_i is determined by the prince's covariates x_i linearly such that p_i = s_i β where β is unknown to the princess. After having sampled prince i, she reads his utility to her centered at his true utility but with variance σ²/t_i, where t_i is the length of her relationship with prince i…

The punch line has an optimal dating strategy and some awesome graphs. Read the entire post to learn more about better living through computer simulation.

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The Tetris God

I knew this was how Tetris worked

How math works

Driving as a metaphor for mathematical inquiry.

Fractals in your food

Wikipedia has a handy reference showing the Hausdorff dimension (a measure of the fractal nature of an object, sort of) for various physical objects (as well as many abstract ones).

	Coastline of Great Britain: 1.25
	Cauliflower: 2.33
	Broccoli: 2.66
	Surface of lung: 2.97