Imagine that you try to do something and there’s a 20% chance of success. If you try to do the thing six times, what is the probability that you succeed at least once?
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Simulation for Probability of Success
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Friend simulation system, with ChatGPT
Philippe Vandenbroeck and Santiago Ortiz were curious about a system that incorporated knowledge…
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Asteroid simulator for before the big one hits
Knowing the impact of an asteroid falling in your city might not seem…
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Gerrymandering detection with simulations
Harry Stevens, for The Washington Post, how simulations can be used to detect…
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Interactive traffic simulator
Traffic always seems so sensitive to the smallest disruptions. Someone pulls over to…
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Simulation for different immunity scenarios
As vaccinations roll out, we work towards herd immunity, there are various challenges…
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Using the FiveThirtyEight model, see how the election odds shift with different scenarios
With each model update, FiveThirtyEight runs 40,000 simulations, or what-ifs, to calculate the…
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How air spreads on a subway train
If someone sneezes in a closed space, you hope that the area has…
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Visual explanation for how herd immunity works
Herd immunity works when you have enough people who are immune to a…
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Playable simulations to decide what happens next
The timelines keep shifting and people are getting antsy for many valid (and…
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Simulation of droplets while social distancing
Using 3-D simulation data from the Kyoto Institute of Technology, The New York…
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Simulating an epidemic
3Blue1Brown goes into more of the math of SIR models — which drive…
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Simulating the Unknown; Working From Home – The Process 081
We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, but we can look at what we do know and make our best guess.
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How to Flatten the Curve, a Social Distancing Simulation and Tutorial
Using R, we look at how your decreased interaction with others can help slow the spread of infectious diseases.
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Simulations for virus spread with social distancing
Social distancing is the game plan these days. Try to stay at home…
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Super Tuesday simulator
With Super Tuesday on the way, there’s still a lot of uncertainty for…
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A sim to show self-driving car challenges
On the surface, driving a car might seem fairly straightforward. Follow the rules…
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Simulation of fan emotions during a basketball game
During a game, the range of emotions can vary widely across a crowd.…
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Interactive explainer for how disease and ideas spread through a network
Kevin Simler uses interactive simulations to explain how things — ideas, disease, memes…
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Optimized bubble tea consumption
When you drink bubble tea, ideally you’d like to finish with the same…
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