4.15.2025
The more I work on the Password Game article, the sillier it gets. I just used Pyplot to graph the frequency of elements in chess moves by atomic number.
The more I work on the Password Game article, the sillier it gets. I just used Pyplot to graph the frequency of elements in chess moves by atomic number.
A few days ago, I downloaded osu! again for the first time in years. I'm gradually getting my skill back up, which isn't too hard since I've been playing other rhythm games (mostly Wacca) at the local arcade. I've been using my laptop only with the touchpad lately though, so I'm mostly getting used to using a mouse again.
In the process of satisfying my curiosity about The Password Game, I have started learning regular expressions and I am kind of dying over here. It is a good skill to have though, because I can imagine plenty of ways it will make my work quicker once I'm doing "real" programming and data science.
In making Fatebook predictions, I've found a useful way to think about probability: if an event has an 85% chance of happening, that means out of 100 random possible futures, there are 85 where it happens and 15 where it doesn't. I don't know whether that actually makes my predictions more accurate or if it just makes me feel like I better understand probability, making me feel more confident. I wonder how I could test that.
I was wondering which punctuation characters were most common in the programming languages I use, so I could decide how to focus my efforts on learning to type them without looking at the keyboard. Someone made some very nice frequency charts that are basically exactly what I was looking for. The specific order of most frequent characters doesn't matter much, and I could have guessed which ones are generally most common, but I like statistics. Plus it's reassuring that this person says the extent to which different projects in the same language favor different characters is insignificant.