12 entries tagged #english, across writing, playground, and science.
Parallelism between thoughts and the double-split experimentThoughts stay fuzzy and unresolved until you write or speak them - a loose parallel to how the double-slit experiment forces ambiguity into a definite state.Mar 8, 2026Blog
A tweet about AI that made me pauseA tweet claims AI and robotics are about to break the economic system entirely. Working through the argument, the more likely story is that AI relocates scarcity rather than eliminating it.Feb 15, 2026Blog
Simulations of the German "DFB-Pokal": Evaluating Tournament Outcomes with a Stochastic ModelA stochastic model of the German cup's knockout tournament, fitted to 20 years of results, to estimate win probabilities for teams from different leagues.Sep 8, 2024Blog
Why You Should Think (at least) Twice: A Scientific Approach to Decision-MakingTreat your own thoughts as data points from repeated experiments, not a single pro-and-con list, to make better decisions and filter out condition-dependent noise.Jan 21, 2024Blog
Unveiling the Behavior of Blinds with a Pipeline of Python, Machine Learning, and ReactBuilding an end-to-end pipeline - from a shared Google Doc, through several scikit-learn models, to an interactive React/Plotly app - to predict when the office blinds go down.Mar 25, 2023Blog
Setting up an automated daily posting Twitter-Bot in PythonA walkthrough of getting Twitter developer API access and using Python's Tweepy library plus a cronjob to post automatically every day.Aug 21, 2022Blog
How you increase the maximum upload filesize in WordPress within your Apache / PHP configurationWhy the common wp-config.php and .htaccess fixes for WordPress's upload limit fail on a self-managed Apache/PHP server, and where to actually change it.Jun 26, 2022Blog
Why doing the opposite can be highly effective — analogy to non-convex optimizationWhen the usual approach to a recurring problem keeps failing, doing the counter-intuitive opposite can escape the local optimum - an analogy to non-convex optimization and simulated annealing.May 12, 2022Blog
How you easily scrape websites using PythonA from-scratch, dependency-free approach to scraping websites: fetch the raw HTML with requests and pull out what you need using plain string splitting.Apr 16, 2022Blog
Hypothesis testing on football players consciously getting yellow cards to get suspendedDo Bundesliga players engineer their 5th yellow card to fall in a home game rather than an away game? Testing the idea with simulation, an analytical model, a t-test, and a Wilcoxon test.Mar 21, 2022Blog
Behavior of blinds: A sketch of scientific practiceRecording exactly when the office blinds close for half a year, fitting a sine function to the lower bound, and treating the whole exercise as a tiny sketch of the scientific method.Feb 27, 2022Blog
Peaceable Armies of Queens – Constraint ProgrammingA Constraint Programming solution to the Peaceable Armies of Queens problem in SICStus Prolog, with runtime comparisons across labeling strategies and board sizes.Mar 28, 2017Blog
