Christian Rudder over at the OkCupid Blog gives an in-depth analysis why the practice of paying for dates on sites like Match.com and eHarmony is fundamentally broken. It’s quite mathematical and he claims that 96.25% of profiles are ‘dead’. His subscriber flowchart sums it up pretty well: Rudder says, “As you can see from the …
Check out Dave’s blog (http://mathematicallyyours.tumblr.com) which contains lots of math stuff (among other things). The tattoo feature earlier was actually his tattoo!! I don’t think I’d have the guts to do that.
Hi all, My math fail new years resolution for 2011 is to update MathFail a bit more often (compared to the past two months). Some statistics on MathFail.com for January 1st, 2010 – December 31st, 2010: There were a total of 772,865 pageviews. The top 3 pages visited were: In the glossary of a programming …
Hi Guys, Figured I would update you all on some of the best of the best posts on MathFail (organized by most recent): Beam me up! Wait… Aug 30, 2010 (5 out of 5 – 5 ratings)Geeky romance Aug 30, 2010 (5 out of 5 – 7 ratings)The classroom calculator Aug 29, 2010 (4.9 out …
Over at MathNathan, Nathan tries to come up with a way to define love. It’s a quite interesting way to define “love”, something that is far from being trivial. He starts off with an axiom The rest of his post is at mathnathan.com. As for me, I love:
GASARCH over at Computational Complexity asks: What should everyone know? What does everyone know? The questions are supposed to be in the context of mathematics, that is, particular theorems and results that you learn about in your academic career far later than you should have. If someone has a Ph.D. in mathematics, there are definitely …
As stated on the WolframAlpha blog, new features have been implemented: “You can ask directly for the probability of a full house or other common hands, as well as the probabilities of various outcomes when you play Powerball, roll two 12-sided dice, or repeat any sequence of trials with a 20% chance 4 times. … …
A nice NY Times article about Martin Gardner. “…Mr. Gardner was 42 and had never taken a math course beyond high school. He had struggled with calculus and considered himself poor at solving basic mathematical puzzles, let alone creating them. But when the publisher of Scientific American asked him if there might be enough material …
Are people actually subscribed to my silly blog? The majority of traffic comes from google. The keywords “math fail” takes the lead followed by key phrases that have both “math” and “sex”. According to my search, some other site has the top position for math sex on google (without quotes)!! GRRRRrrrrrrrrrr…… I strive to be …
A nice flow chart on how to pick a chart. Created by Andrew Abela. Though the English version of this chart was posted in 2006, he just recently uploaded the chart in some other languages (for example french). Au revoir.