Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The Shaggydog Theory: Why George R. R. Martin Doesn't Want to Finish his Song of Ice and Fire Series

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Seven years ago, the last update to the legendary A Song of Ice and Fire series came available, the fifth book A Dance with Dragons .  This...
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

How to Save Soccer and the World Cup

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I'm not really a soccer fan.  Really, I'm not much of a sports fan at all.  But I'm married to a Central American, so every now ...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Giving Clerics Their Due

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In the DCC RPG ruleset, many have noted that Wizards are given an extraordinary level of awesome, whereas Clerics sort of get shafted.  A h...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Roko's Basilisk and why people were afraid of it

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I'm really late on this one, but I wanted to explain Roko's Basilisk, for all the people who heard about it a while ago and never re...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

The Monty Hall Problem, Bayes Theorem, and a fault in Numberphile

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I watch a lot of educational videos on YouTube, in particular the awesome channel Numberphile.  I recently saw their video on the Monty...
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Monday, December 25, 2017

Richard Feynman and the Message of Christmas

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I often come across as a Grinch during Christmas.  It isn't that I don't like the holiday, it's that I find the actual celebrati...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Alternative to the d20 System

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Early D&D used to be a mishmash of various different rules. Roll this die for this, that die for that, look on a table for this other t...