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Poly plots – higher degrees

When I last did some poly plots, I said I wouldn’t do anything higher than cubics as they take too long. And I didn’t, because they did. But after the trillion primes, I took what I learned there and revisited

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guys riding dinos

My brother found out there was a dino riders movie in the works. He said to himself “self, you can write a better script than anyone in Hollywood for a movie about guys who ride on dinosaurs”. So during a

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One trillion primes

I’ve previously mentioned I planned to generate and save a trillion primes. Well, I’ve now done exactly that.

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Fifty Shades of Beige

One day when I was walking to my car, the door handle snapped off in my hand. So when I got a chance, I went to the nearby car parts store and picked up a replacement. The replacement was black,

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Lunar Eclipse

A few days ago there was a lunar eclipse. Here’s some pictures from it.

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Filling a hard drive

For a while I had wondered if I could fill a hard drive with prime numbers. Turns out the answer is yes.

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Yet more pictures

Traveling season is just about over, so here’s some pictures from the journey (or several of them).

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From under the linoleum…

I had visited my parent’s house this summer. Within hours of arriving, dad put me to work ripping out the walls of some rooms for renovation. When ripping up the pink shag carpet that came with the house I found

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Bigfoot Array

Most people hunt for Bigfoot in the wrong way. Highly funded hunts are also terrible at this. They blow their budget on video editing (I’m looking at you Discovery Channel!). They’ll record thousands of hours of people staring into a

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Student Interactions

After teaching undergrads for a few years, here’s a write up of several interactions I’ve had with them.

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