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  1. I want to start teaching my almost five year old son chess but it's kind of hard! Does anyone know of a simplified version of chess that might be a good first step in this direction? I'm think of something played on a…

  2. Two Envelope Paradox (mindbowling.wordpress.com)
  3. I'm an ex-physicist (theory) looking to learn more about cryptography and cryptocurrencies. Much of the stuff I can find on cryptography are general purpose textbooks that start from the beginning with cyphers etc. For…

  4. I understand that HN tries to be pretty on topic & focused and does not appreciate unrelated comments etc. As such silly jokes etc are generally frowned upon. However, humor can also be used to get a nontrivial point…

  5. High frequency trading (or more broadly systematic trading) is a notoriously secretive field, but one that I'm trying to learn more about (specifically the quant side). I suspect that there are some decent resources out…

  6. Ye Combinator (yecombinator.com)
  7. Two Envelope Paradox (mindbowling.wordpress.com)
  8. Laplace Smoothing [pdf] (mindbowling.files.wordpress.com)
  9. Should You Play the Lottery? (mindbowling.wordpress.com)
  10. Should You Play the Lottery? (mindbowling.wordpress.com)