Looking ahead

For fun, I just did something I never do: Look at the pre-registered entries for the next tournament I’m playing in, the Western States Open in Reno. It’s still ten days away, so there will surely be more entries, but here is how it looks so far in the...

DNM in NYT

Announcement! On Monday, October 8, the Numberplay blog in the New York Times will feature a problem based on my book, The Universe in Zero Words, and it will also have excerpts from my book. (In fact, it may have a whole chapter; I’m not really sure.)...

Google Trends

Of course everybody on the Internet uses Google for search. But I like some of the parts of the Google site that you might not visit as often. I did a blog post earlier about the Ngram viewer, which shows you the frequency of various words and word combinations over...