My partner found a game on her computer that she probably downloaded a decade ago. We wanted to tweak the behaviour and I'm sick of cross-compiling.
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Written by Ian Kilgore in misc on Thu 21 March 2019. Tags: locks,
I picked a Mul-T-Lock Interactive, a high-security pin-in-pin dimple lock.
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In the course of my research I needed to demonstrate that some experimental data is chaotic. This post is an example of how I reconstruct phase space from 1-D experimental data by the method of delays, plot the underlying attractor, and estimate the maximal Lyapunov exponent (characterizing the divergence of the system).
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I design features for single-character image recognition and implement a variety of feature selection techniques in order to generate a parsimonious model.
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On Monday evening I had dinner with a friend who showed me the game Capitals and suggested it might be interesting to play it programmatically. tl;dr: I spent the last 18-20 working hours doing that (Github link)
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I get emotional about a Perl script
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I gave a talk at the NCSU Linux Users' Group on some ideas about mechanics, spatial dimensions, data science, and differential geometry. Slides and video after the break.
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July 4th 2014 Celebration with the NCSU Linux Users' Group, 10kg of thermite and a lawnmower. Videos and some grade school chemistry after the break.
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(tl;dr: see PDF here). For a top-secret joke project I am learning to program in LaTeX as if it were a general-purpose language. LaTeX is my favourite way to write scientific papers, but no one should use it for programmatic logic. Along the way I have implemented a Sieve ...
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The ubiquitous inverse-square laws in physics are a necessary consequence of the three-dimensional nature of space. Barrow shows that Kant was the first to recognize the geometrical connection, although he got it backwards. I explain the geometrical reason for inverse-square laws and follow Kant's argument. Thanks, Kant. Thant.
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