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Lighting a little candle for the 1st year of FES (as it's known on the street)
I couldn’t help but notice that Substack pushed out a nice way to write and publish simple text posts straight from the cool app so I thought I’d try it out. Honestly, I can’t see using it very much for my own scrappy little newsletter since, in an apparent effort to drive down…
(maybe) less familiar relationships between pi and e and the primes!
I was thinking about the “hot hand” idea in sports — this comes up often when watching, say, a basketball broadcast. Some player will hit 3 3-pointers in a row and you’ll hear that the player is on a HOT STREAK, and they should get the ball next time down the court presumably…
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