Today I learned about pygame with my dad. We are working on our physics simulator, it simulates gravitational pull. We are planning on adding vectors and another mass.
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Physics Simulation with pygame
Hyperefficient
Hyperefficient
I am going to try some small experiments based on reading this book.
The first one will be based on the idea of structuring a work session. I am going to try this and see if it works better than the Pomodoro method. I often find Pomodoro hard to …
read moreMost Common Spanish words to Anki
Get the most common words from Spanish
Results will depend on the corpus used. I am not interested in accuracy, so just got a Spanish corpus from nltk.
- figured out which words were junk and removed them (underscores etc)
- Count frequencies
- Dump this to a list suitable for prompting an …
VO2 Max
Desire to improve fitness
I want to improve my overall level of fitness. VO2 max seems to be a reasonable way to measure this. A proxy for VO2max is a fitness test over a specific length of course. For example running a mile. For the test to be useful it …
read moreLearning Python
Not the Hello World! version
A list of resources and practices to get python beyond the basics
The book
I am using Fluent Python by Luciano Romalho as the starting point. I bought this book years ago and never really got the best value from it. I skipped too much …
read moreNotes on The Man from the Future - fission
The fissile material was Plutonium. It was in the shape of 2 hemispheres with a central core of Berillium and Polonium - the initiator. The initiator's job was to produce some neutrons to start the nuclear chain reaction in the surrounding sphere of Pu. The Pu is sub critical as assembled …
read moreCurry improvement guide with Chat GPT
Sous Chef GPT
I wanted to see if I could use Chat GPT to become a better cook. I tried the Sous Chef GPT that Open AI produced themselves a while ago. I told it some things I had and the sort of dish I would like. It was a …
read moreVienna - How the city of ideas created the modern world by Richard Cockett
Freedom of movement in the empire
The Emperor of Austria-Hungary insisted on freedom of movement of people within the Empire. This allowed large numbers of people to move from the east of the country to the city of Vienna and its suburbs. This is a simple case of allowing people …
read moreDaddy is a Doctor
This is an idea from Daniel Dennett's book Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking.
The idea here is that a little kid could say something like the above and not really know what this meant. This does not mean they are lying, but their concept of what a doctor …
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