FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link In Riddler City, the city streets follow a grid layout, running north-south and east-west. You’re driving north when you decide to play a little game. Every time you reach an intersection, you randomly turn left or right, each with a 50 percent chance. After driving ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link From Tom Hanrahan, a maze you can solve without getting lost in a field of corn: The number in each box tells you how many spaces up, down, left or right you must move. (No diagonal moves, people.) Starting at the yellow six in the ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Classic link After a long night of frivolous quackery, two delirious ducks are having a difficult time finding each other in their pond. The pond happens to contain a 3×3 grid of rocks. Every minute, each duck randomly swims, independently of the other duck, from one rock to ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link At the recent World Indoor Bowls Championships in Great Yarmouth, England, one of the rolls by Nick Brett went viral. Here it is in all its glory: 12/10 on the mindblowing scale 🤯 #SCtop10(via @BBCSport) pic.twitter.com/6pN6ybzVel — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 23, 2020 In order for ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link Riddler City is a large circular metropolis, with countless square city blocks that each have a side length of 1 km. A small section of the city, composed of 36 blocks, is shown in the diagram below: At the very center of the city lies Riddler City ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express ( Link to the original article.) From Patrick Mayor comes a question about something we’re doing these days to keep ourselves and others safe: social distancing. You’re walking along the middle of a wide sidewalk when you see someone walking toward you from the other ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express Dakota Jones is back in action. In her quest to locate the Temple of Diametra, she has found another highly symmetric crystal. However, nefarious agents have again gotten wind of her plans, and now Dakota and the crystal are nowhere to be found. And so, you ...

Summary The Riddler is a weekly puzzle provided by FiveThirtyEight. This week’s puzzle involves finding the path used by the knight to kill the opposing queen in a game of chess. Below, I show how I solved puzzle using two methods: a siumulation of the chessboard and by building ...

Introduction Cancers are often first classified by their tissue of origin, but there are several types of cancer for each tissue. Further, each of these can have several subdivisions. For example, head and neck cancers can be further divided into seven cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). ...

Introduction Cancers are often first classified by their tissue of origin, but there are several types of cancer for each tissue. Further, each of these can have several subdivisions. For example, head and neck cancers can be further divided into seven cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). ...

Introduction I am preparing a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal and decided to compose it in $\LaTeX$ using Overleaf. While Overleaf, an online $\LaTeX$ editor, has many collaboration features (including live, multi-person editing and review) many people, namely my PI, dislikes both $\LaTeX$ nor Overleaf, and instead prefers ...

Introduction I am preparing a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal and decided to compose it in $\LaTeX$ using Overleaf. While Overleaf, an online $\LaTeX$ editor, has many collaboration features (including live, multi-person editing and review) many people, namely my PI, dislikes both $\LaTeX$ nor Overleaf, and instead prefers ...

The problem I stumbled across this problem as a TA for an introductory R course. It was a minor question on a Problem Set focussed on creating a Shiny app that the instructor had seeminly dismissed as trivial and not bothered to include in his solution guide. Anyways, I needed ...