For those who don't know, FiveThirtyEight is a website dedicated to looking at current events in politics, economics, science, pop culture and sports through a statistics-heavy, projection-based lens. It's run by a very smart fellow named Nate Silver, who started it in 2008 to analyze presidential election polls; it's expanded greatly since then and has been purchased by ESPN (which, aside from creating a sports-heavy portion of the site, has allowed it a lot of room to operate as it pleases). It's still probably the very best site for numbers-based election coverage.
At any rate, FiveThirtyEight writer Oliver Roeder has started a weekly blog series called The Riddler. Here's how he describes it:
This is the sort of thing I love, so I figured I would start a thread on here where I and anyone else interested could discuss the puzzle, talk about the solutions, and discuss any other sorts of mathematical puzzles that caught our fancy. So, each week I plan on linking to The Riddler's most recent puzzle, giving some brief thoughts, and opening the floor to discussion! The types of problems are a lot like "The 100 Prisoners' Problem" recently posted on here by Aractus, so hopefully stuff like that can find its way to this thread too!
There have been 11 Riddler puzzles posted already, so I'll work through posting them over the next week or two, including a couple right now to start things off right!
At any rate, FiveThirtyEight writer Oliver Roeder has started a weekly blog series called The Riddler. Here's how he describes it:
Quote:Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s first weekly installment of The Riddler. On Fridays, I’ll offer up a problem related to the things we hold dear around here — math, logic and probability, of course. These problems, puzzles and riddles will come from lots of top-notch puzzle folks around the world, including you, the readers.
This is the sort of thing I love, so I figured I would start a thread on here where I and anyone else interested could discuss the puzzle, talk about the solutions, and discuss any other sorts of mathematical puzzles that caught our fancy. So, each week I plan on linking to The Riddler's most recent puzzle, giving some brief thoughts, and opening the floor to discussion! The types of problems are a lot like "The 100 Prisoners' Problem" recently posted on here by Aractus, so hopefully stuff like that can find its way to this thread too!
There have been 11 Riddler puzzles posted already, so I'll work through posting them over the next week or two, including a couple right now to start things off right!
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Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
