Maxwell Hanson

I used NLP to gain insight into James Joyce’s Ulysses and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (“IJ”). It’s kind of useless…but kind of fun. (I will not include my sources of Ulysses and IJ.) [Read More]

What is the probability that, in a set of \(n\) randomly chosen people, at least two people share a birthday? The question is innocent, but the birthday paradox says that the probability exceeds \(50\%\) in a set of just 23 people. The result is counter-intuitive, as the product of probabilities... [Read More]

Suppose we wish to determine the day of the week for a given date, say, June 16, 1904. We can, of course, search for the day of the week using Google, but we don’t need Google! We can use the Doomsday Algorithm. The Doomsday Algorithm, devised by the English mathematician... [Read More]