The AI That Came To Dinner
My job has indoctrinated me into the cult of AI. All staff at our company are ’expected’ to embrace AI, and use it as much as possible. Truthfully, this doesn’t bother me - I’m lazy by nature, so if the…
Cooking for Software Engineers
The title is a reference to “Cooking for Engineers”, originally a blog post which spun off into a whole site. It re-imagines recipes as flowchart-like diagrams. The writer of the original blog post jokes that actual engineers would probably hate…
Pokemon TCG Pocket, Part 2 - How long it takes
In a previous post, I used a simulation to predict how long it would take to complete the Champion of the Sinnoh Region secret mission. It said that I should expect to open around 250 booster packs. I have now…
Questions Nobody Asked
15 years ago, I was unemployed. I’d dropped out of university the year before and my job prospects weren’t looking good. I was spending a lot of time on Twitter (presently X). And I noticed some patterns, the ways different…
When will I get the cards I want in Pokemon TCG Pocket
When Pokemon first took the world by storm, I was 8 years old. Which is to say, I was the perfect age for it. And I was WAY into it. Nearly 30 years later, and something of it is still…
Any Probability with a Dice or Coin
I woke up from a dream with a question in my head – can we generate any probability with a coin and a six-sided dice? Let’s focus on the dice - what probabilities can we generate with a dice roll?…
Every film I ever saw - data mining myself
I signed up for Letterboxd. One of the first options, on creating a letterboxd account, is importing data from other services - one of them being trakt. I don’t use trakt directly. For many years, I’ve been using SeriesGuide to…
My hat contains a hidden message
I shaved my head. My hair’s been getting thinner for a while now, so I thought I’d try going all in. I’m still getting used to it. But one thing I did expect, was that my head would feel colder…
Hidden messages and an optimal ternary scarf
A while ago, I found a pattern for a tunisian crochet scarf that I kinda liked. The design was straightforward - just three solid blocks; I picked 1 blue, 1 grey, 1 cream. I got maybe 20 rows into it,…
Temperature Blanket - Completed
A temperature blanket is a crochet or knitting project where one makes a blanket over the course of a year, doing a piece a day with the colours based on each day’s temperature. For the full background and design of…
