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Blog Posts (49 of 'em)

Reflections on the Recurse Center
Calculating all possible rankings for The Circle USA Season 6
Rating fluctuations in chess
Recurse Center, week 12
Recurse Center, week 11
A Visit to the Center for Computing History
Recurse Center, week 10
Recurse Center, week 9
Recurse Center, week 8
Tiny Metronome now has a 903-byte sibling
Recurse Center, week 7
Recurse Center, week 6
Recurse Center, week 5
Recurse Center, week 4
Recurse Center, week 3
Recurse Center, week 2
Recurse Center, week 1
A Recursive Christmas
Reflections on a PhD
A Coffeehouse Conversation with ChatGPT
Triangulation pillars: an alien technology?
George Carlin's Things You Never See, AI edition
I submitted my thesis
Get involved in open source software by using it
Board games and Markov chains
I love ads!
Advent of Code 2021
Making a calculator
Yet another Wordle solver
The probability of a hash collision
The bit-twiddling magic of two's complement, explained
Why the Moon doesn't crash into Earth
An easy answer is hard to find
Not Growing a Language
The grand stretch in the evening, visualised
toki poems
A Farewell to JavaScript
The Darts Player Who Estimated π
Recreating grep in Python
Can your granny beat Michael Jordan at basketball? A probabilistic answer
A short review of A Short History of Nearly Everything
Obese websites and planet-sized metronomes
The Beatles and "you"
Counting the number of days until your birthday and why it's a useful programming trick
Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
Random RGB values that average to N; or, Pointlessness and Probability
Solving all 42 versions of the Harry Potter potions puzzle
The story of u/AnEmojipastaBot
Simulating plane designs for faster boarding