Birthday Paradox

[nelsonic]

Can we build a beginner-friendly Brithday Paradox explainer that will help people who are totally new to math/CS understand it far more effectively?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
• http://matt.might.net/articles/counting-hash-collisions

I'm thinking we should write some UI that renders a 10x10 grid table with "birthdays" and as soon as there is a collision we identify it visually.

[nelsonic]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack
• https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3295/how-does-a-birthday-attack-on-a-hashing-algorithm-work

https://youtu.be/Jn2s1BSMQyM

[nelsonic]

http://datagenetics.com/blog/february72019/index.html

[nelsonic]

Work-in-progress: https://repl.it/@nelsonic/birthdayproblem-7digit-random-number-collision#index.js