Measuring the Sky II: Models, Planets and Transits
How did astronomers calculate the distance to the planets?
Measuring the Sky I: Earth, Moon, Sun
How did the ancient Greeks calculate the distance to the Sun? The first post in a series exploring the measurement of distances to various celestial objects.
Visualising CNN Feature Maps
A brief guide to coding and training a basic CNN with the MNIST dataset, and plotting the feature maps.
Paradoxical Skies
An overview of Olbers’ paradox and our place in the cosmos.
Best Games of 2020
16 great games I played in 2020.
Perspectives on Pythagoras’ Theorem
Pythagoras’ Theorem, Pythagorean triples and Dijkstra’s generalisation.
Diamond-Square
Generating fractal terrain with the diamond-square algorithm.
Improved Name Generation
A brief overview of n-grams and techniques for improved random name generation.
Procedural Name Generation
A brief guide to generating random names with Markov chains.
Detecting Craters on Mars
A short article adapted from my award-winning poster presentation at Pawsey.
The Travelling Thief Problem
A discussion of the relatively new Travelling Thief Problem; a merger of the well-known Travelling Salesman and 0-1 knapsack problems, plus a brief foray into computational complexity.
Best Games of 2019
12 of the best games I played in 2019.
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