Tag: math

21 JAN

After Math: First!

It was a week of firsts for the tech industry. Facebook finally got around to adding its first African American board member (because it’s not like it’s already 2018 or anything), a lifeguard drone made its first Hasselhoffian beach rescue, Ferrari announced that it is indeed working on its first electric supercar, and Kodak took […]

14 JAN

After Math: CES 2018 by the numbers

After a week in the desert, CES 2018 has finally come to a close. Booths were trod, products were demoed and the conference was visited by only one of the biblical plagues. Puffco debuted one of the only cannabis gadgets seen at CES in recent memory, a gaming robot beat virtually every human who challenged […]

11 JAN

The Brutal Math of Gender Inequality in Hollywood

The Golden Globe Awards on Sunday provided a useful snapshot of the limitations of the #MeToo movement. Viewers gazed into a monochromatic protest against the scourge of harassment, with uniformly black dresses and suits, “Time’s Up” pins, and often inspiring speeches about standing up to abusive power. But while host Seth Meyers filleted Hollywood’s most […]

02 JAN

This Guy's Math Joke Resolved Some Weirdness With His Girlfriend And Someone Called It “Cute Shit”

“My boyfriend and I weren’t really ‘mad,’ because we never really get into huge arguments,” Bree told BuzzFeed News. “We’re really comfortable with each other so we do express if we’re irritated or in a not so great mood, then that makes the other person in the same negative mood and it can make us […]

28 DEC

We did the math to see if it’s worth buying a Powerball or Mega Millions lottery ticket

Thomson Reuters The jackpots for both Powerball and Mega Millions are above $ 300 million as of Thursday morning. Even though that’s a pretty big prize, working through the math of how lotteries work suggests buying a ticket is not a great investment. The low probability of winning and the risk of splitting the prize […]