Emilie Mitchell

emiliem.bsky.social

14 April 2025 14:33

#ThisWeeksFiddler: We didn't have to find the actual hedge layouts to answer the questions, so I didn't! (But then I did anyway because it's fun.) colab.research.google.com/drive/17qFKJ...

The Questionable Authority

questauthority.bsky.social

09 April 2025 14:28

Evergreen.

in #thisweeksfiddler we are looking for the smallest classroom size such that every possible group of k kids can approach the teacher for candy, and no consecutive two groups share a kid. to start, we look at the k=3 case, where trios of kids approach the teacher. @xaqwg.bsky.social

for groups of size 10, it means classroom of size 21. in such a classroom there are binom(21,10) different groups, and any given student is in 10 out of every 21 groups. this means that each student will get 10/21 * binom(21,10) = 167,960 pieces of candy, which is way too much.