Quick Look Back
Posted by Rob Herman at July 25th, 2006
Thanks for the enthusiastic response to the pirate riddle. If you haven’t seen it, reader Alatar has posted a great analysis of the problem given a couple of slightly different assumptions about what the pirates do when a choice is made.
In other news, you may remember the version of the riddle with red and blue hats where there is a traitor. Reader John pointed out that we’ve been massively, massively overthinking it.
Full-length post to come later tonight.