trying to be a mile wide AND a mile deep
A factory makes bags of six assorted filled chocolates. Each bag contains two each of three varieties; they always have caramel-filled chocolates, have either chocolate cream or vanilla cream, and have one of orange, raspberry, or mocha. The assembly line is set up so half the bags start at the chocolate cream machine and half […]
1. Willie Nelson’s song “I’d Have to be Crazy” contains the line I’d have to be crazy to fall out of love with you. Based on that hypothesis, he asserts The place where I hold you is true, so I know I’m all right. Is this a logically valid argument? That is, is still being […]
Math with Bad Drawings is in the midst of a series about probability to try to explain the concepts without the computations. It is wonderful so far, and promises to cover a lot of territory.