Posts Tagged with #cs

A rabbit-hole of an analysis into the win percentage of a simple game, from a friend from a Reddit post from a TikTok video. What started as a simple statistical problem snowballed into a fascinating delve into algorithms, combinatorics, and areas of math I had previously avoided. (This is the first of two posts on this game, where I just describe the problem.)

What happens when we traverse the grid of Gaussian integers by turning left whenever we hit a Gaussian prime? This is a Julia implementation of a simulation originally in Python (but was too slow for interactive exploration) of an idea originally brought up on Stack Overflow. Lots of interesting images.

An analysis of a bad (but not that bad) sorting algorithm.