The 538 Riddler: A Dog and a Duck in Purgatory
UPDATED 2/15 2:09 PM: Gonna save you the suspense on this one, folks. I was wrong, very wrong. See the follow up here. Things are turning a bit dark at the 538 Riddler as this week Ollie imagines a...
View ArticleFollow up to Duck vs. Dog
Okay, well, my luck has officially run out. I was definitely, most certainly wrong wrong wrong about how much faster the dog could travel and still allow the duck to escape. Thanks once again to...
View ArticleThe 538 Riddler: Air Travel Nightmare
So last week’s Riddler was a good news/bad news situation. The bad news is that I was wrong, although I did illustrate the correct answer in a follow-up post. The good news is that I still managed to...
View ArticleThe 538 Riddler: Encryption Blues
This week’s Riddler was mostly fun with a solid day of frustration thrown in. I was able to get the answers but I didn’t use much code to do it, but I’ll show what I did write. Also, a brief note about...
View ArticleThe 538 Riddler: Hot New Game Show
Hello again, faithful reader(s). Happily my solution to last week’s Riddler turned out to be correct once again, although I didn’t get to write much interesting code for it. This week’s Riddler on the...
View ArticleConducting Technical Interviews, Part I
Generally speaking, job interviews can be awful. They are stressful for the candidate and a huge time sink for the interviewer, often time that has not been accounted for in milestone planning. And the...
View ArticleThe 538 Riddler: Free Throw Grannies
Hello, and welcome to this week’s look at the 538 Riddler. Last week concerned optimal strategy for a (very) simple game show, and happily my answer was correct. This week’s Riddler concerns free...
View ArticleConducting Technical Interviews, Part II: The Whiteboard
Last week I shared some thoughts about interviewing software engineers and some basic do’s and don’t’s for the interviewer. In this post I will concentrate on one of the more recently controversial...
View ArticleThe 538 Riddler:Weird Guy in Trench Coat
Hello, and welcome to my look at 538’s Riddler. Last week I managed to get the correct answer using a Monte Carlo, and Go’s really nice NormFloat64 function. Commenters squareandrare, mathisallaround,...
View ArticleThe 538 Riddler:New Casino Game
Welcome to my weekly look at 538’s The Riddler. Happily my answer to last week’s riddle proved to be correct once again, and I was happy to see some commenters who came to the same conclusions. Thanks...
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