Andrew Berget

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Here is a series of cute logic problems. I do not have a reference for where I got these. If you wrote them, or know who did let me know.

• The first prisoner.
• The second prisoner. (I don't have this problem ...)
• The third prisoner.
• The fourth prisoner.
• Solutions. (I decided to take these down. You can figure them out yourself ... right?)

There are whole books of these sorts of problems by the famous logician Raymound Smullyan.

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[A somewhat vain section of] Various things I like:

• This American Life, the Canadian cousin of This American Life Wiretap, and Found Magazine. I submitted something to found once. Here it is. My friend Tyler Whitehouse found it in an old magzine. In the same vien there is PostSecret.
• [Good] Beer. In particular I love Belgian ales and stouts. Some brewery's I like are Samuel Smith, Bells, Rogue and Unibroue. One of my favorite beers is Stone Russian Imperial Stout.
• I listen to techno music and classical music. I'm more of an amateur classical music listener; I don't really know anything about anything. I've been listening to a lot of Alpha, Boards of Canada and Ulrich Schnauss lately. I download lots of sets from hybridized.
• I try to read during the school year, but constantly fail. During breaks from school I like to read Russian and German literature [in English]. My favorite authors include Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.
• This is my favorite painting. It's by Francisco de Goya.
• Lastly, I'm a *nix enthusiast. On my home computer I run xubuntu linux, it's very fast.

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