Egg Parachute

Create a parachute using sheets of paper and test it by trying to see if it can land an egg safely from 50ft without crashing.

Antlr: Grammar Creator

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Jeff Bezos Quote (from HBR Interview)

"The Institutional Yes"
How Amazon’s CEO leads strategic change in a culture obsessed with today’s customer.
An Interview with Jeff Bezos by Julia Kirby and Thomas A. Stewart

I very rarely get asked “What’s not going to change in the next five to ten years?”
-Jeff Bezos, HBR Interview

For our business, most of them turn out to be customer insights. Look at what’s important to the customers in our consumer-facing business. They want selection, low prices, and fast delivery.
-Jeff Bezos, HBR Interview

Whenever we’re facing one of those too-hard problems, where we get into an infinite loop and can’t decide what to do, we try to convert it into a straightforward problem by saying, “Well, what’s better for the consumer?”
-Jeff Bezos, HBR Interview

One letter in particular said, “Maybe you don’t understand your business. You make money when you sell things.” But I thought to myself, we don’t make money when we sell things; we make money when we help customers make purchase decisions.
-Jeff Bezos, HBR Interview

Years from now, when people look back at Amazon, I want them to say that we uplifted customer-centricity across the entire business world. If we can do that, it will be really cool.
-Jeff Bezos, HBR Interview

I don’t know that I have anything profound to say about that. When you start out, it’s a one-person thing, at least on the first day, and you’re not only figuring out what to do but actually doing it. At a certain point the company gets bigger, and you get to where you’re mostly figuring out what to do but not how it’s done. Eventually you get to the point where you’re mostly figuring out who is going to do it, not even what to do. So one way to think about this is as a transition of questions, from “How?” to “What?” to “Who?” It’s not necessarily a conscious thing; circumstances dictate it.
-Jeff Bezos, HBR Interview

The best and worst Super Bowl ads. - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine

About Super Bowl 2010...
The best and worst Super Bowl ads. - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine

The rumblings were correct: Google bought its first Super Bowl ad. True to form, the company didn't attempt to shape its brand with a celebrity spokesperson, a lame comedy bit, or shenanigans involving animals. Instead, an almost all-text ad told the story—through search engine inquiries—of a guy who visits France, meets his soulmate, and starts a family. This was one of multiple ads this year tracing long character arcs (Cars.com and Dove Men+Care both followed a character from birth through adulthood), but, amazingly, the narrative here was expressed entirely through a product demonstration. Ad Report Card has long considered the melding of practical sales pitch with uplifting emotion the holy grail of advertising, and here's a prime example. Frankly, I'm getting a little of sick of Google doing everything right.

Shared Birthday Probability

What is the probability that two people in the class have the same birthday (same day and month)... incredibly high... I think it was around 95% for a 5-student class.

Challenge a group of people and then test it...

Game Theory Game

Every student should select an integer between 0 and 100.
I will calculate the average of the numbers chosen by all students in the class.
The winner of the game is the person who chooses the number that is closest to two-thirds of the average of the numbers chosen by the class.