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Gaming
Ace of Aces: Why You Should Do Maths as a Game Designer
A game designer digs into the math behind Ace of Aces, the clever two-book dogfight game, and shows how counting probabi…
AnyDice
A dice probability calculator that graphs the odds of any roll combination, beloved by tabletop players and game designe…
Are You the One Is Free Money
A reality-TV-loving husband shows how simple information theory and probability can crack the dating show Are You the On…
Battleship
A playful deep dive into overengineering the game of Battleship, using probability heatmaps and information gain to work…
Bayes Theorem
An interactive picture of Bayes' theorem in which priors and posteriors appear as areas in a square, so you can see the…
CleverMind Teasers
Interactive visualizations of probability puzzles like the 100 Prisoners Problem, with simulations you can run and tweak…
DataGenetics
A blog of sharply written essays on puzzles, probability, and game strategy, unpacking things like why lottery number ch…
Dice Run
A dice roller for tabletop RPGs that parses standard notation, keeps a full audit trail of each roll, and charts the pro…
algorithmsoup.wordpress.com
Science
Driving Faster Takes Longer
A math blog post that starts from a simple question about speeding between Boston and New Haven and arrives at a surpris…
Every Bracket
A single page showing all 9.2 quintillion possible March Madness brackets, a way to grasp the sheer scale of the odds in…
Gaussian Belief Propagation
An interactive visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation, with live demos explaining distributed inference on g…
Generating Random Points in a Sphere
An illustrated walk through several methods for picking random points inside a sphere, with rotatable 3D plots showing w…
Greedy Pig
A push-your-luck dice game where you roll a d6, bank points or keep rolling, and a 1 wipes the turn, racing to 100 point…
How a Kalman Filter Works, in Pictures
A friendly illustrated walk-through of the Kalman filter, using colorful Gaussian blobs to show how a robot fuses noisy…
How Bayesian Inference Works
A friendly illustrated explainer of Bayesian inference that walks through priors, likelihoods and posteriors with simple…
How likely is 'likely'?
A quick quiz asks you to put numbers on phrases like probably, likely and almost certain, then plots your answers agains…
ihavenotv: Math Documentaries
Math documentaries about probability, luck, risk, game theory and the hidden numbers behind everyday choices.
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Science
Industrious Dice
Mathematician James Propp explores a puzzle about dice that do more than their share of work, a playful essay on probabi…
Infinite Monkeys
A calculator toy that tells you how long a given number of monkeys would take to type any phrase, from one monkey to mil…
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
David MacKay's classic textbook, free online in full, linking chapters on entropy, coding, probability and neural networ…
Lincoln is...blue
A small interactive experiment where a grid of squares gets random transparency from truncated normal distributions, and…
Lottery Every Second
A live simulation that plays Powerball and EuroJackpot every second, so you can watch the numbers roll and feel just how…
Mega Millions Simulation
Pick your Mega Millions numbers and let the simulator play draw after draw for years, tallying how much you spend and ho…
Minesweeper Thermodynamics
A mathematician's playful blog post that treats Minesweeper boards like physical systems and uses ideas from thermodynam…
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