I used to work at reddit. Now I'm at Google.
I saw a post this morning about something called the "Tuesday Boy Problem". It illustrates a really interesting and counterintuitive topic in probability, but it was written up in a frustratingly verbose, confusing, and ambiguous way. So I'm going to try to restate it more clearly. Let's start from the basics. If a person on the street says to you, "I have two children," what is the probability…
According to the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital , Conde Nast is considering a spin-off of reddit . This is the first I'm hearing of it, and it's being denied by the current admins , but I hope there's a grain of truth to the story. Spinning reddit off would be a brilliant move, a total no-brainer. There are exactly zero synergies between reddit and any other Conde Nast property, and the…
Check out this perfect souffle my wife made (using Alton Brown's recipe):
Infocom's classic interactive fiction version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy came with a fantastic assortment of feelies -- cool little trinkets and papers to encourage people to buy the game instead of just making a copy of their friend's. Among them were an "order for destruction" of Arthur Dent's house and a similar-looking form that appeared to be an order for the destruction of…