This cool puzzle (and solution) comes from my friend Mike. Alice secretly picks two different real numbers by an unknown process and puts them in two (abstract) envelopes. Bob chooses one of the two envelopes randomly (with a fair coin toss), and shows you the number in that envelope. You must now guess whether the …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Android Bug Reports, Songs, Rovers
The following is a partial list of bugs in Android (or associated software) which have impacted my actual life in some way. Some may have been fixed since I last encountered them. When navigation is muted, but you hit volume down just to be safe, it unmutes and starts blaring, waking other passengers on the …