Watch later

I have 2,350 videos on my Watch Later list on YouTube. That is way too many videos. Four hours ago I had even more. There is no way I will ever watch even half of these videos later. Some are old and easy to trim off—writing tips about

The process of looking for a used car

[I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.] Looking for a car is annoying. Here's what I've done so far: 1. Figure out what I need in a car. 2. Look for years, makes, models that should work at a price I may be

What is the null probability of a distribution of straights in a hand of cards? 1/?

(In which I go insane trying to figure out the answer. Don't mind the gaps.) (Previously: One, two, three.) In Max Shinn's post about optimally shuffling cards, he describes looking at the "joint distribution of these frequencies compared to a null distribution." This is

What is the null probability of a given combination of ranks?

Following on previous posts about shuffling... In Max Shinn's post about optimally shuffling cards, he describes looking at the "joint distribution of these frequencies compared to a null distribution." This is slightly ambiguous, but I'm going to interpret this in a similar way as

How to re-stuff a Samadhi Cushions zafu

Samadhi Cushions unfortunately has closed, so I can no longer get instructions or filling from them to refill or recharge my zafu, but it turns out the insides are easily exposed with no tools so I can re-stuff them. Once I took off the zipper cover, I groped around the