Sunday, May 27, 2018

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How To Use Plotly In Vue

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Saturday, May 26, 2018

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How To Write A Simple Calculator With Vue

We are considering using Vue for a project at work, and this was a fun little thing to write to get started with it so I figured I'd type it up as a simple example for anyone else investigating Vue...

Vue.js calculator example

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Friday, May 11, 2018

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Waiting For Multiple Ajax Calls To Complete Using Async/Await

I ran into this problem today and decided to put together a quick demo of one method for solving it...

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

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Playing With Bucket Sorting

Bucket sorts are pretty interesting and seem to be covered less often than quicksort, mergesort, etc...
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

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Sticker Collecting Problem

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

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Regression Toward The Mean In The NBA

Regression toward the mean is a fascinating concept, and I went through some NBA data to test it...

Free throw % from one year to the next

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Thursday, February 15, 2018

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Planet Orbiting Binary Stars

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

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N-Body Problem And Our Solar System

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

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Visualizing Algorithm Complexity

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

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Monte Carlo Simulations And Pi

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

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I Wrote A Book Of Solved Problems

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

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What Value Minimizes The Sum Of Squared Errors For A Group Of Numbers?

I noticed this result at work one day and it caught me off guard...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

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How Much Should You Invest To Create Your Own Pension?

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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