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Gödel's Junk Drawer
I have a problem with organization. Not a lack of it — an excess. At some point I discovered clear plastic shoe boxes from The Container Store. They stack, they're uniform, they're transparent so you can see what's in them. I started putting things in
The Fence Problem, Generalized
If you took calculus, you probably remember this problem: You have 100 feet of fence. Build a rectangle. Maximize the area. It's a classic optimization exercise. But I noticed something about the answer that my textbook never pointed out — something that holds not just for rectangles, but for
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