Weekly links for November 4

Jeremy Kun on the UCB1 algorithm for the multi-armed bandit problem. (Incidentally, none of the authors of the paper introducing the algorithm were affiliated with UCB – it stands for “upper confidence bound”.)

What is the sound of sorting?

Colm Mulcahy has a magic trick based on polydivisible numbers.

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