Hint: Consider tangents! — In this essay, I have yet another viral geometry puzzle for you. I came across this puzzle on the internet recently and found it engaging. Again, as is often the case with viral math puzzles, I could not narrow down the definitive source. …

The current science around ‘sentience’ is lacking! — LaMDA stands for Language Model for Dialogue Applications. It is Google’s breakthrough technology that is aimed at free-flowing and open-ended conversations. In other words, it is a state-of-the-art chatbot system (more on this later). Although LaMDA has been publicized since 2021, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) system became an overnight sensation…

Abstractions power every piece of technology we use today! — To benefit from abstractions, you need to understand them first. We engage in acts of designing and executing abstractions all the time without realizing it. While the human mind is often involved in implicit abstractions, in this essay, we are particularly interested in explicit abstractions. More specifically, we are interested…

This concept also explains how magic tricks work! — Zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a technique/method where you prove to someone that you know something without revealing to them what you actually know. If that sounds a bit non-sensical, let me clarify. Let us say that you know a secret about something. You wish to convince your friend…

The origins of geometric probability! — The Franc-Carreau or fair-square is a game of chance from a time when the mathematical notion of probability was just seeping into the world of gambling. …

Hint: Triangles! — I recently came across this viral geometry puzzle on the internet, and found it interesting to solve. I tried to track down the original source of this puzzle. But as is often the case with viral content, it is very difficult to narrow down the source. …

Can you solve this challenge in under one minute? — Welcome to the fifth entry in the tricky algebra problem series. Over the past couple of iterations, the difficulty level has been steadily rising. So, this time around, I wanted to make things a little beginner friendly and lower the difficulty level. But don’t let that fool you into thinking…

Part 3: Features sort and search! — In my previous essay on how to benefit from computer science, I covered the concept of time-space-money (resource) trade-off. In this essay, I will be covering the concept of ‘sort and search’. We will begin by covering one of the most fundamental real-world applications of sort and search algorithms. Following…

Expected value is not what you expect to be! — Expected value is another one of those scientific terms like statistical significance that people misunderstand quite often. In this essay, I aim to clarify some of the common misconceptions about this concept. We will begin by covering the historical origins of expected value. Then, we will look at mathematical formulation…