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A Maths Puzzle About Pirates Shooting In A Circle🏴☠️
Here’s a classic maths retold: 1,024 pirates stand shoulder to shoulder in a circle, numbered 1 through 1,024. On the captain’s whistle, the 1st pirate shoots the 2nd, the 3rd shoots the 4th, and so on around the ring — every shooter spares the one beside them and fells the one just past. The fallen…
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The Consciousness Curse – Cyberpunk 2077
Man dies the way he was born: soft, weak and helpless. Death, the one certainty in this universe of chaos, can be both a tragic end and a release from suffering. It can come as an unexpected twist, or as a beautiful, crowning counterpart to a life well lived.The curse we face as humanity, the…
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Jordan Peterson – Women in High Paying Jobs
Well the thing is: young stupid people have the advantage of being young. Middle-aged stupid people have the disadvantage of being middle-aged. And so, if you’re going to hire a young stupid person or a middle-aged stupid person, you’ll go for the young stupid person. And by stupid, I mean you know. I’m being sarcastic…
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How Can I Monetise This?
Interactive puzzle You pick 3 random points on a circle. What is the probability that the resulting triangle contains the center of the circle? Drag the three blue points anywhere along the circle, or hit randomize, and watch whether the triangle catches the magenta center. Drag the points Center outside Tip: spread all three points…
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Let’s Look At This 2026 Maths Exam For Gifted Students In Iraq
I was scrolling on Reddit today and came across this difficult maths exam from Iraqi High School for gifted students. As someone who has completed a 3-year undergraduate degree in mathematics, I’d say similar problems also appeared on my first year exams in multivariable calculus and differential equations. Somehow it’s more ‘satisfying’ to do calculus-based…
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The Truth about Cyberpsychosis
I’ve had enough of the senseless shootings that claim hundreds of innocents every day. I’m sick of the satire on empty, deadend implant-restriction dialogue. I’m tired of ignoring the cyberpsychosis problem. In American society today, there are still a lot of common myths and misconceptions about the so-called technology-related personality disorders. People think they can…
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A Content Arms Race
Sometimes I use AI to generate my blog posts on Medium. The thing is I am doing this for money like I don’t care too much anymore about very complicated maths because survival is more important. I have said before that it’s a luxury to be yapping about maths because most people aren’t in the…
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Can You Solve This Classic Geometry Puzzle?
I was browsing through Twitter and came across this very interesting problem by @Pratik Matematik. There are two ways to solve it, one using geometry, the other relying on trigonometric formulas! Once again, this is a good moment to pause the article and give the problem a go yourself. When you’re ready, keep reading for the…
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Twin Stars: Deng Yu, Hong Wang, and the Proofs That Moved a Century-Old Mountain
On July 23, 2026, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, the Fields Medal went to four mathematicians. Two of them, Deng Yu and Hong Wang, share more than a stage. They share a classroom. Both entered Peking University’s School of Mathematical Sciences in 2007, and nearly two decades later they became the first…