Tipping Point State COVID Cases
What does COVID look like in the state that will determine the Electoral College winner of the 2020 presidential election? To find out, …
Precedent for Blocking Merrick Garland Nomination?
Recently, Dan McLaughlin argued that historical precedent supports the Republican Senate filling the September 2020 Supreme Court …
Password or Passphrase
library(magrittr) Should you use a password or a passphrase? The time it will take your adversary to crack your safe using a brute …
Make America Safe Again
Recently, Laffer and Hartley proposed a negative payroll tax as a more desirable means of moving money into individual pockets than the …
Play TicTacToe with an AI
In a recent post, I shared my machine learning skills with a TicTacToe program based on Monte Carlo Tree Search. This post lets you …
Recovering .mp4 from Phone's Emergency Shutdown
Recently, my phone was recording video when the battery ran out and shut down. After charging the phone, a video file was there but …
Forecasting Coronavirus Case Counts in NYC
COVID-19 cases are sweeping the globe. One potential hotspot seems to be New York City. Here I show the historical case count and …
ZoTFIDF: Adding custom tf-idf tags to your Zotero database
I wanted to add my own custom tags to my Zotero citation management database based on the term frequency—inverse document frequency …
Exploration and Exploitation: Machine Learning for Games
I recently saw the AlphaGo documentary film and it blew my mind. Essentially, a computer was able to beat a world champion in a best of …