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Where to wait for an elevator (2010)

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The Kelly criterion: How to size bets (2019)

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Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (2017)

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What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency?

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Kelly Criterion

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Back of the envelope estimation hacks

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Bitcoin Spreads Like a Virus

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Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings (2015)

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Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged

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A data science investigation of IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Fandango

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Empirical Bayes for multiple sample sizes

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The Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm

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How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions?

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An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)

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Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings

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Deriving the Reddit Formula

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Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting

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