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This is really cool. A brief exposure to how computers are able to play chess.

How Bayes's Theorem can be used to decide if mail is spam or not.

Very cool. Now that we see that mail filter software "adapts" to the user, we can address the problem in class of what would happen if a doctor who deals with prostate issues uses a filter and words such as viagra prop up when the email is not actually spam.

Evidence of a surprising mathematical pattern (Zipf Distribution) in both the relative populations of cities and the calories burned by mice.

That's very cool. I hadn't known anything about the Zipf Distribution before.

Whoa. I guess humans are more in tune with their surroundings than we think.

Live updated win probabilites for baseball games based on the state (runners on, number of outs and innings remaining) of each of the games.

What's the length of a random chord in a circle? It turns out that even if you try to distribute the chord uniformly there is an ambiguity.