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Temperature in LLMs
How word vectors encode meaning
Simulating the electric field and a moving charge
How the Mandelbrot set is defined
A challenging puzzle about subset sums
Ellipses have multiple definitions, how are these the same?
Three levels of understanding Bayes' theorem
The medical test paradox (well "paradox")
Positioned as the hardest question on a Putnam exam  (#6, 1992)
Why does light slowing imply a bend? (Beyond the tank/car analogy)
The cube shadow puzzle
What does it mean that light "slows down" in glass?
Why do we call them "scalars"?
A beautiful international math olympiad problem
Definition of a "bit", in information theory
The Newton art puzzle
What is a group?
How to derive a formula for π
The limit of limiting arguments
For anyone who might not know how links in shorts work
Infinite Lighthouses and π
Can you even imagine 2^256?
Order from chaos
The surface area of a sphere
A short on shorts
A pretty way to add weighted dice
A simple image convolution
These integrals all equal π, until...
The split necklace puzzle (with a surprise topological solution)
Error correction is incredible
The chessboard and coins puzzle
Prime spirals
The barber pole effect
Fourier series
Seeing with sound
How prisms work (video linked above shows why light "slows down")
Don't let it fool you!
I'm still astounded this is true