Martin Beneš

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Stories


The Merci cake issue
Apr 15, 2025

My friend Eliška got a cake from Merci chocolate bars and Ferrero Rocher, attached to a base from polystyrene. It was really finely done, with satisfactory geometric regularity....

Modelling a sheep herd by fluid dynamics
Apr 06, 2025

Living in mountains, I get many opportunities to ask myself the most fundamental question: "Can a sheep herd be modelled similarly to fluid dynamics?" Today, we are go...

Chance of winning a lottery
Dec 20, 2023

Sportka is a popular lottery in Czechia, with an average superjackpot over 100M CZK. What is the chance of winning the lottery? How much one loses by long-term betting? Today, w...

Birthday paradox
Jun 08, 2021

There is 23 people in the group. What if I tell you that the probability that (at least) two of them have birthday at the same day is more than 0.5? You don't believe? Ok, let's...

K-Nearest Neighbors algorithm on Iris dataset
Jun 02, 2021

Let's go through a basic steps of a classification workflow on species of plants in popular dataset iris. For implementation we shall use Python and a library scikit-learn (skle...