Why does Outlook Calendar think we all live in a tiny town in Slovakia?Something caught my eye this morning when looking at my Office 365 calendar. I live in Cambridge, UK. Why would I care about the weather…Jan 11, 2021Jan 11, 2021
Rejection-sampling the Zipf DistributionIn my last post, I discussed the Zipf Distribution, its pmf, cmf and inverse-cmf, and approximations of these for use in software —…Jul 8, 20171Jul 8, 20171
Generating Zipfian random-variables[Also see my article Rejection Sampling the Zipf Distribution for a different method]Feb 19, 20173Feb 19, 20173
Was 2016 especially dangerous for celebrities? An empirical analysis.It’s become cliché that unusually many prominent people died in 2016. Is this true? To answer this we need to know:Jan 2, 201742Jan 2, 201742
