2021

Article in the Spanish newspaper El País about my analysis of how to play (and win) Wordle exploiting the statistical biases in the game A Spanish data scientist’s strategy to win 99% of the time at Wordle Esteban Moro has created an algorithm to solve the trending online game that has hundreds of thousands of people around the world in its thrall Esteban Moro, a professor, researcher and data scientist at Madrid’s Carlos III University and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has sought a scientific answer to this question. ...

Once again, 2021 has been an strange year. Most of our activities happened at home and meetings, conferences and talks where in our rooms, in front of our computer. Luckily, it started to change in September In September, I was back to my office since March 2020. 18 months later. The world stood still since there and my office, papers and blackboard were clearly showing it. My first day there, the MediaLab was showing a melancolic “Welcome” for the students to the campus. ...