Over the last few weeks I had an opportunity to give a tutorial on agent-based modeling in sociophysics. I have made an attempt to showcase basic concepts and models related to the field. The slides might be of interest to the Lithuanian readers of Physics of Risk blog. You can download them by clicking here.

Last time we have simulated really simple football tournament. That time we have asked the question about average strength of the champion. But we can also inquire about the distribution, which leads us to order statistics.

This week we will take a look at another Riddler's Classic puzzle. The problem for December 9th, 2022 invites us to take a look at a particular stochastic football tournament.

In this Numberphile video Ben Sparks asks a seemingly trivial question - what is probability to find two people in London, which would have the same number of hair on their head? 1! Lets exclude bald people. 0? Are you sure?

So, I won't be teaching Matlab anymore. Yay! Why? While I enjoy programming and learning new things (one of the reasons I agreed to teach Matlab in the first place) my experience using Matlab was quite terrible. Can you enjoy teaching technology that you don't like? Rant follows :)