What I saw on the web on 2022.2.6

1. Elendil the Insufferable Lying Bastard: Historical Bias in the Akallabêth (Part Four)
   by Daniel Stride
   https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/elendil-the-insufferable-lying-bastard-historical-bias-in-the-akallabeth-part-four/
   closing out the four-part series looking at Elendil as a biased narrator of the Numenorian downfall
   via rss
   
   
2. The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy
   by Grant Sanderson
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA
   a nice exposition of information theory, even for those of us in the control group
   via rss
   
   
3. February
   by Kevin Killeen
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PB3sBZxf4
   in case you wondered why February is miserable, here's the explanation
   via boing