When do People Arrive to Lectures?
Today, in my Statistics and Probability course, I arrived to the lecture an hour early. So I decided to record the arrival times of every person to this lecture and…
Why You Shouldn’t Speed (with mathematical proof)
Consider the scenario where you need to drive 100 km. For the first 50 km you are stuck in traffic so you are able to drive 50kmph. Then, for the…
Why the Partial Derivative Notation is not Well-Defined (but everyone knows what you mean)
This was a shower thought I had today. Consider the function f(x, y) = x^2 + 3y. Then, compute df/dx. Now, you might not know how to do partial differentiation,…
The Day the Lottery Got Too Expensive for Grandma
"Back in the day, I’d grab one of those lottery tickets every Friday, and it only cost four bucks. Just the other day, I went down to the kiosk again,…