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.
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.
A brief guide to coding and training a basic CNN with the MNIST dataset, and plotting the feature maps.
An overview of Olbers’ paradox and our place in the cosmos.
16 great games I played in 2020.
Pythagoras’ Theorem, Pythagorean triples and Dijkstra’s generalisation.
Generating fractal terrain with the diamond-square algorithm.
A brief overview of n-grams and techniques for improved random name generation.
A brief guide to generating random names with Markov chains.
A short article adapted from my award-winning poster presentation at Pawsey.
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.
12 of the best games I played in 2019.
A reflection on taking Chinese units for my broadening requirement at UWA.