TLDR: Base-16. Read on for a longer explanation if you haven't heard that term before. Yes, you read the title right. Under some specific circumstances and contexts, 4 times 4 is indeed 10. And this isn’t just abstract philosophizing or a gimmick - this is something engineers are directly working with and utilizing every day, … Continue reading Proof that 4×4 is sometimes 10
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
We live in a world today, with statistics all around us. Opinion polls. Confidence Intervals. Margin of Error. Risk estimates. But do we actually understand what any of these things mean? I must have been in college when I first heard the quote popularized by Mark Twain: “There are lies, there are damned lies, and … Continue reading Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

