Oh, hey Matt. Oh, hey! You? It's me, Robert. We sat next to each other for like three semesters in college.

Yeah, Richard. Robert. Robert, yeah. How have you been? What are you up to these days? Done with college, I presume?

Uh, technically no, since I'm a professor now.

Ah, teacher humor. Anyway, what are you up to? Well, uh, my life definitely took an unexpected turn. I'm, uh, I'm actually a professional

Youtuber now. Oh, God, don't tell me you're setting couches on fire in your backyard.

No, no, those people are the worst.

No, I have a show where I actually talk about video games.

Well, someone got lucky.

So what do you do all day?

It's about what you'd expect.

Play video games, make fun of video games. Read 29 page papers about binomial

distributions in a series of Minecraft speed runs.

Wait, really? Ha! No, no, I'm just kidding. Only part of the paper deals with binomial

distribution.

The other sections describe modular arithmetic and the properties of linear congruential

generation. I'm going to Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory. The show that speeds through scientific topics for the benefit of those with short attention spans yet still manages to be longer than a Minecraft speedrun.

It's true as of November 3rd the world record for speed running Minecraft 1.16 is 14 minutes, 39 seconds, and

520 milliseconds.

Miloseconds!

That is how granular we're getting here, people.

And that should show you that

Minecraft speed runs are a serious business which is probably why a

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