Bucket sorts are pretty interesting and seem to be covered less often than quicksort, mergesort, etc...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Sunday, April 15, 2018
If you buy a box of cereal and get a sticker, there are 5 unique sticker types, and they occur with equal probability, how many boxes of cereal do you need to buy to get all 5 sticker types?
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Friday, March 9, 2018
Regression toward the mean is a fascinating concept, and I went through some NBA data to test it...
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| Free throw % from one year to the next |
Thursday, February 15, 2018
I was curious what types of orbits you could get for a planet orbiting a binary star system, so I played with it a bit and collected some of the interesting results.
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
I was curious how stable our solar system is, so I started playing a bit with the n-body problem and here are some results. I've also included simple source code in MATLAB and Python if you want to play with it yourself.
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Saturday, February 3, 2018
I like to optimize stuff at work at tend to rant about algorithm complexity to my coworkers, so I figured I'd see if I could visualize it in a way that's meaningful to non-developers.
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Friday, January 26, 2018
Monte Carlo approximations for values are a really cool concept so I went ahead and visualized possibly the most well-known one...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
I was interested in how to write an ebook, so I went ahead and wrote one. It contains a few of the problems that are here and a number of new ones. It's $0.99 on Amazon and called 'Answered with Math', so check it out if you're interested.
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Saturday, January 6, 2018
I noticed this result at work one day and it caught me off guard...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017
The concept of a pension fascinates me since it would be great to have your investments pay your living expenses while you work wherever you want without worrying about a salary. I've created a calculator here that allows you to figure out the numbers you need to create your own pension plan.
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Friday, December 29, 2017
In multiple conversations with different people I've realized that they don't quite understand how annuities work and why they seem too good to be true, so I figured I'd explain a tricky one with an example.
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Friday, December 22, 2017
I was curious if time of day affects the likelihood of your post doing well or being ignored so I ran some data to see if I could spot any trends.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017
In working on CityProjections, I have to do bilinear interpolation constantly. Is there a fast way to do it in MATLAB?
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