Random thoughts mostly (and indication I’ve got too much free time on my hands 🤷). This isn’t one of those high cadence blogs and it will probably get weirder over time.


The Scaling of Dichotomies

When I was a small boy I used to spend hours playing the “war” card game. The thing about this game is, it’s totally predictable and deterministic - each player gets a shuffled half of the deck and cards are extracted one by one in order. No chance or skill involved whatsoever and the result is completely determined by the pack you were dealt - we could just as well determine the winner by a coin toss.
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