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The Marriage Problem

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Another one from the vaults. I wrote this in the late 1990′s: A society consists of equal numbers of males and females. Each female knows all the males and vice versa. Each female has a priority list of the males she would like to marry, and vice versa. The task is to marry them all [...]

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The Great Wall of Learning

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Does it seem to you that people reach a point in their lives where they just stop learning new stuff? We recently had a baby boy, and I tell friends of my parents that he was “just over three kilos” at birth, only to be met with blank stares. Seriously. The hospital is complicit in [...]

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Conversation Simulation and Sensible Surprises

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Here’s a book chapter that I wrote in 2000 and that wasn’t published until late 2008. Enjoy! Probably best to read in full-screen, or click through to Issuu and download the PDF.

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