Life is Too Complicated. “The Birthday Problem” Explains Why.

Beware complexity creep

Flowers in Stone, Paul Klee

Here’s a brain teaser for you: Imagine we’ve got a room full of people. We’re trying to figure if any two people in the room have the same birthday.

For us to reach a fifty-percent probability that there are two people in the room with the exact same birthday, how many people need to be in the…