23 Dec 2014
Differential equations are nasty to deal with. Ideally, an explicit solution can be found, but those may be hard to find, if they exist at all. Numerical solutions, though they produce less mathematical insight, can be applied more generally. Read moreTags: Mathematics
21 Dec 2014
The title says it all. I want to be able to play Dwarf Fortress in a browser. For maximal silliness, I also want to be able to play with other people as well. The code itself is available from my github account. Read moreTags: Mathematics , Linux
21 Nov 2014
Even the most avid follower will not refresh a page minute by minute, weeks after the most recent post. It would require patience and insanity A better solution is to use Atom or RSS feeds, which notify a user when there is an update. Read moreTags: Site Information
18 Nov 2014
ROOT is a C++ data analysis framework designed by CERN. It’s greatest strength is in writing arbitrary C++ objects to file without needing to write serialization code for those objects. Read more26 Oct 2014
When making the omnicolor images, my reference point has been the time necessary to make a 1920x1080 image. The first implementation took about five hours. By the end, the same size image took twenty seconds to generate. Read moreTags: Omnicolor Images , C++
24 Oct 2014
Given a color palette, make an image that uses each color exactly once. Read moreTags: Omnicolor Images
22 Oct 2014
When working on a command line, it can be easy to forget which machine one is on, as there are few visual indications of the server. Enter the PS1 command line variable. This is the text shown in the prompt. Read moreTags: Linux
21 Oct 2014
Geometric vectors represent a point or a displacement from a point. These can make spatial Read moreTags: C++
15 Oct 2014
$\LaTeX$ is a useful tool for rendering documents, especially documents with many equations. While the document aspect doesn’t translate very well to the web, the capability to use equations is magnificent. Simple equations are displayed better as $\frac{1}{x}$ than as 1/x, and I would be hard-pressed to find a nice way to write $\frac{\lambda^k e^{-\lambda}}{k!}$ without typesetting. Read moreTags: Site Information
14 Oct 2014
As far as I have used it, jekyll is a great platform, especially with the ease of publishing on github.io pages. However, it is limited to static pages, which makes it difficult to have community interaction. I can make new posts from any browser window, but readers cannot easily leave comments. Read moreTags: Site Information