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  • Perils of Eroded Civic Knowledge Forewarned by Former Justice Souter  (www.msnbc.com)

    This is extremely important.

  • A Striking Perspective on New York City Property Values | Metrocosm  (metrocosm.com)

    Property values across the U.S., where the area of each state has been substituted for its total property value.

  • The Night My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was  (www.vice.com)

    Because of her dissociative identity disorder, I was a stranger in the eyes of the woman I loved.

    Beautifully written, and a reminder that something like 50 First Dates is actually a terrifying situation.

  • Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets  (www.newyorker.com)

    Ricky Jay is a legend, and is without a doubt one of my favorite magicians to watch. His shows leave you with a greater appreciation for the magician’s craft, rather than just the immediate illusion they present.

  • Homer's Last Theorem  (boingboing.net)

    A look into the deep, dark, strangely complicated world of Simpsons mathematics.

    I knew that Futurama has a lot of great mathematics involved, but I didn’t realize that it started in the Simpsons.

  • Pipino: Gentleman Thief — EPIC MAGAZINE — Medium  (medium.com)

    Magicians, Mafiosos, a Missing Painting, and the Heist of a Lifetime

  • The Time Everyone "Corrected" the World’s Smartest Woman  (priceonomics.com)

    In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.

    I still remember the chaos caused by the Monty Hall problem in our high school math class. Here’s my explanation for how it works.

    • Your first choice could either be a car or a goat.
      1. If you picked the car, you will win the car by not changing your guess.
      2. If you picked a goat, the host will reveal the second goat. The last door left will be the car, so you are guaranteed to win if you change your guess.
    • You have two possible strategies to win the car:
      1. Try to pick the car on your first guess, and don't change the guess.
      2. Try to pick a goat on your first guess, and change the guess after the host opens another door.
    • The second strategy is better, since picking a goat is twice as easy as picking the car.

    The best strategy is to try to pick a goat in round 1. Once the host has revealed the second goat, you are guaranteed the car by switching doors.

  • A Teenager’s View on Social Media — Backchannel — Medium  (medium.com)

    Very informative description of how teens and college students use the major social networks

  • The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete  (www.newyorker.com)

    Very cool profile of Scarlett, a professional StarCraftII player

  • AWS Lambda  (aws.amazon.com)

    You can trigger an AWS Lambda function to automatically create a thumbnail when an image is uploaded to Amazon S3, verify address updates in an Amazon DynamoDB table, or process click-stream data in an Amazon Kinesis stream, without having to manage any compute infrastructure.

    Billing is metered in increments of 100 milliseconds, making it cost-effective and easy to scale automatically from a few requests per day to thousands per second.