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• Salt Lake City

  some stray notes that are neither here nor there

  Posted on April 28, 2024

  

  

  I had the pleasure of visiting Salt Lake City (SLC) two weekends ago, and took a few notes while roaming about the streets. I was only in the city for two days, but here are a few things that stood out to me. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • reflection
  • writing

• Twenty-Twenty-Three

  sudo apt-get install 2024

  Posted on February 29, 2024

  

  

  intro I originally wrote this post in late December of 2023, but procrastinated in publishing it until well, now, which if all goes correctly should be late Febuary of 2024 (and a leap year excitingly)! [Read More]

  Tags:

  • reflection
  • writing

• Discovering Data Cmpresn

  Or how we can store War and Peace on a device smaller than Tolstoy's pinky toe

  Posted on February 9, 2024

  

  

  What is data compression? Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia, not to be confused for the another Wikipedia) defines data compression as the “process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.” Data compression tries to maintain as much information with as small of a representation as possible, and that’s... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • math
  • computer science

• Mersenne Twister

  From seed to paper

  Posted on December 16, 2023

  

  

  seed 🌰 [Read More]

  Tags:

  • math
  • computer science

• Pollard's Kangaroo Algorithm

  A random walk through Wikipedia

  Posted on December 5, 2023

  

  

  introduction [Read More]

  Tags:

  • math
  • computer science

• Lorentz Contraction

  hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hmmmm

  Posted on December 4, 2023

  

  

  introduction At a recent dinner, the dicussion turned to magnetic and electric fields as can happen when more than one electrical engineer is present – a confusing, yet enlighting phenomenan. One said something along the lines of “at fast speeds, the electric field just drops out of the B field”.... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • physics
  • math

• November Report

  Reflection on learning, new ideas, and questions to investigate

  Posted on November 27, 2023

  

  

  The November Report [Read More]

  Tags:

  • reflection
  • writing

• Charming Charts

  An appreciation of some informative ways to visualize data

  Posted on November 13, 2023

  

  

  Intro Since nobody likes looking at data from a raw csv file, information is usually presented to the public (or researchers) in the form of charts. Depending on how they are structured, charts can give a new meaning to data. People are visual creatures, and how we see information is... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • math
  • data

• Do or do not, there is no Trie

  A datastructure disturbance in the force

  Posted on November 9, 2023

  

  

  Intro My brother was telling me that they were learning about tries in his data structures class. When he first told me this, I was suprised that he was pronouncing “trees” in such an odd way, but learned in fact that tries are actually a subcategory of trees. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • computer science
  • math

• John Adams

  Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction -- J.A.

  Posted on October 27, 2023

  

  

  Intro [Read More]

  Tags:

  • writing
  • history

• Democracy in America

  Alexis de Tocqueville's take on the new kid in town

  Posted on October 27, 2023

  

  

  intro In 1831 a young man named Alexis de Toqueville set out to answer a fundamental question of the times: Was American democracy working? The nation, under 50 years old at this point, was a lab rat for Europe. In France, Toqueville’s home country, the desire for a stable democracy... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • writing
  • history

• Seasons in Colorado

  A sketch

  Posted on October 25, 2023

  

  

  Autumn 🍂 [Read More]

  Tags:

  • writing
  • nature

• A Celebration of Gibbons

  Happy International Gibbon Day!

  Posted on October 24, 2023

  

  

  Intro It is always “international” one thing or another day, but today, October 24th, holds a special place in my heart: International Gibbon Day. But what are gibbons, one might and indeed should ask. Gibbons are primates in the family Hylobatidae (derived from a word in Ancient Greek meaning “one... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • animals
  • biology

• Metcalfe's Law

  A little learning

  Posted on October 9, 2023

  

  

  Metcalfe’s Law [Read More]

  Tags:

  • math

• Notes on Empire

  The East India Company - Mahatma Gandhi

  Posted on October 6, 2023

  

  

  Intro [Read More]

  Tags:

  • history

• Tinkering around with the Apollonian Gasket

  Fractals are the covergirl of mathematics

  Posted on September 27, 2023

  

  

  How it started [Read More]

  Tags:

  • math

• Anything dirty or dingy or dusty

  A glimpse into the intriguing world of garbage disposal

  Posted on September 12, 2023

  

  

  Inspiration My mind has been in the gutter…thoughts about the garbage and recycling system have been swirling around in there for a few months now, and so I thought it would be nice to clean up my mind by dumping these thoughts out. I started thinking about garbage disposal after... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • infrastructure
  • urban development

• Trying to build a better intuition for logarithmic and exponential functions

  Rabbits and compounding interest and the natural log oh my!

  Posted on August 27, 2023

  

  

  Logarithms [Read More]

  Tags:

  • math

• The Mobius strip of life

  A beginning of an end and an end of a beginning

  Posted on August 10, 2023

  

  

  intro: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • math