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.
I picked a Mul-T-Lock Interactive, a high-security pin-in-pin dimple lock.
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).
I design features for single-character image recognition and implement a variety of feature selection techniques in order to generate a parsimonious model.
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)
I get emotional about a Perl script
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.
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.
(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 ...
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.