Bumblebee Labs Blog » fun http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com Official company blog for Bumblebee Labs Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:13:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 This is why the new facebook sucks http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/this-is-why-the-new-facebook-sucks/ http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/this-is-why-the-new-facebook-sucks/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:05:02 +0000 Hang http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/?p=558
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    • ]]>     Every time facebook does a redesign, the basic concept is sound but they manage to get the specifics wrong. I was enthusiastic when they moved to a real time streaming feed system but not so much after I discovered they removed the filtering algorithm at the same time which allows this sort of thing:

    Facebook Sucks

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    ]]>     http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/this-is-why-the-new-facebook-sucks/feed/ 12     Simulating a fair coin http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/simulating-a-fair-coin/ http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/simulating-a-fair-coin/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:16:52 +0000 Hang http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/?p=329 A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon the question of how thick you would need to make a cylinder for it to be a fair three sided coin. Well, not having the patience to roll a cylinder 1000 times, I whipped up a quick simulation:

    Turns out the height needs to be ~1.33 times the radius for there to be an exact equal chance to land on 3 sides.

    So now you know.

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