Unfortunately it seems that the universe has been fine-tuned in such a way that this tweet would receive some very annoying replies. Wishing the fundamental constants of the universe were very slightly different right now.

Daniel Litt Litt you’re our stoppard

Daniel Litt got three heads in a row off the bat and started hyperventilating

Daniel Litt 'A totem. You need a small puzzle, potentially probabilistic. Something you can think about all the time that no one else knows.'
'Like a coin flip?'
'No, it needs to be more unique than that. This is a Daniel Litt puzzle. No, I can't let you see it, that would defeat the purpose.

I just flipped a coin ten times, resulting in the sequence HTHHTHTTTH. The universe was fine-tuned for this outcome—if the fundamental constants of the universe had been even 0.1% different, I never would have observed this sequence of flips.

Daniel Litt im not a proud bayesian im so ashamed

Daniel Litt You’re in a room and notice that all the oxygen molecules are the other side of it. Do you remember to congratulate Poincare before you pass away?

Dear Quanta Magazine Readers: Today is my last day as editor-in-chief of the magazine. Thank you for taking this unforgettable journey with me. I don't know that I have the words to express what these past 11 years have meant to me, but I wrote a few here. quantamagazine.org/my-fantastic-v…

I do think Daniel's wording was less than ideal in this case, and a large part of people's confusion comes from the wording not being very clear about precisely what is being asked (as clarified in his follow-up post). Rare slip-up. twitter.com/littmath/statu…

Daniel Litt These (excellent!) quizzes are going to single-handedly bring the productivity of mathematicians and adjacents on Twitter to a grinding halt.

Flip a fair coin 10 times under cover of darkness. I take a look at the outcome and then randomly pick 9 of the coins to show you—they’re all heads. The probability the 10th coin is heads is: