Author: admin
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Blogs, Videos, Shorts
Today I wrote two blogs, filmed two videos and one short. The goal is to publish one of each on multiple platforms every day without fail from now on. A somewhat surprising discovery is that it turns out the content that takes the longest to consume for the viewers takes the least amount of time…
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Happy Valentine’s Day: Can You Maximize The Love On This Day?
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone, I hope you are having a euphoric moment, but if not, you can try this algebra puzzle about maximizing the expression LUV + LU + UV + LV given L + U + V = 12. What’s your favorite song about romance? Mine is A Thousand Years by Christina Perri. I…
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A Geometry Puzzle: What’s OC?
Honestly please share your approach to this one in the comments below because there are at least 7 different ways you can get to the correct answer. It’s also a good exercise in reviewing your trigonometry fundamentals. So dig in, my friend! And when you are done trying, keep reading for the solution. Solution Because…
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What Day Of The Week Is It?
As a kid, I used to hear stories of child prodigies being able to figure out what day of the week it is say 1000 days from today. In fact, what is it? Apart from that, let’s try and tackle today’s puzzle about the day of the week of the 100th day of the year…
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Another Barry?
My day was very productive, Our work meeting went through the many events the team can go to. Then I organized my content vault and filmed 3 short form videos using CapCut. I also upgraded my Canva subscription. Anyway, what are the odds that a Barry reads my work? I wonder how many Barry’s are…
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A Cambridge University Admission Question
This is question 4 from the Test of Mathematics for University Admission practice paper by the University of Cambridge. The sequence does look a bit scary at first glance, but fret not, writing out the first few terms will help you find the summation from n = 1 to 39. Now I did this in…
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A Full Day
I had the pleasure of paying a visit to Ryton Pools Country Park located in the south of the outskirts of Coventry. I was going to get there by bus, but after taking the wrong 11 bus, I decided to speed up my travel on an Uber with an anticipated fare of around 5 pound…
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Will Homer Simpson Get His Own Seat?
A line of 100 airline passengers is waiting to board a plane. They each hold a ticket to one of the 100 seats on that flight. For convenience, let’s say that the nthnth passenger in line has a ticket for seat number ‘n’. Being drunk, the first person in line picks a random seat (equally likely for…
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Racing To The Bottom
Imagine there were only two companies A and B in the economy. It’s of no pertinence to our discussion whether they are maximizing profit, revenue or sales. All they are trying to do is to outcompete each other. Thanks to generative AI technology, both of these companies now have the option to employ AI agents,…