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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Alegensis game
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I made a game for the computer, or an ipad, or android or anything with a browser. http://alegensis.appspot.com I'm pretty happy ...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Crossing point theorem
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I found this: If you know the endpoints of the line, then A for example is the small lines furthest right x coordinate minus it'...
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Returning 1 if two parametric functions cross
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I found this equation which given two parametric equations t and u both of x and y, evaluates to 1 if the two parametric equations are equal...
Friday, December 28, 2012
Picture of Rose
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For a break from the math a minute I did this picture of my parent's dog Rose. I did the red, green, and blue channels separately and th...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Kinetic Hash
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There are a lot of times in computer science you want to "hash" a certain piece of information. The important thing about a hash i...
Friday, December 21, 2012
Inverse polynomial approximation
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Consider the limiting process of using the Simpson's rule to approximate say e^x from x=0..5 using n rectangles: n=2 165.11927912116...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Tourney ranking test
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Suppose the actual strength of 25 teams that we're trying to rank that will be hidden from the algorithm is: 1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D 5.E 6...
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