Blog Posts

7 posts.

• Did the Beatles love "you"?
  (2020-04-01) Overanalysing a claim that putting "you" in the first line of a song makes it better.
• Counting the number of days until your birthday and why it's a useful programming trick
  (2020-02-01) There's a formula for interval length that saves you from finger-counting.
• Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
  (2020-01-28) Using SAT-solvers to discover Game of Life states that turn into pictures.
• Random RGB values that average to N; or, Pointlessness and Probability
  (2019-11-22) A simple-seeming problem is solved using tricky combinatorics.
• Solving all 42 versions of the Harry Potter potions puzzle
  (2019-10-03) Brute-force search is applied to a puzzle from Harry Potter.
• The story of u/AnEmojipastaBot
  (2019-09-29) A Reddit bot whose function was to turn comments into emojipasta.
• Simulating plane designs for faster boarding
  (2019-09-07) Moving entrances closer to the middle could make plane boarding faster.