Motivating Number Systems
Why do we need negatives, irrational, and imaginary numbers?
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Extrapolating From Existence
Is it surprising that we exist now?
2025 Year Review
Graphics UI: Moving Objects in 3D
How 3D graphics applications solve the problem of moving objects.
Satisfaction of Render Pipelines
What is a render pipeline and why is it so cool?
Making Customized Characters for Games
Thoughts on how I made characters for The Ump Show game
Infinity + 1: Finding Larger Infinities
Integers, Real Numbers and the Large Cardinals
Making Four Ghosts Have the Same Dream
The ridiculousness of multiplayer games.
2024 Year Review
More of The Ump Show, changing jobs and skateboarding.
Reacting to Changes: Computers and Cells
Both computers and living cells have to come up with ways to 'poll' for changes.
Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety
Mistakes by CAs undermine HTTPS and safety on the internet
C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs
Exploration of C++ complexity with first-hand experience of compiler bugs
Non-Specialness of Our Place in the Universe
On the large scale, the universe is the same everywhere.
Skateboarding: How Many People Ride Goofy?
Riding with your right foot forward is known as the goofy stance and is more common than would be expected!
Understanding 3D Graphics
Terms and concepts useful for starting in 3D design/modeling/graphics.
Probability: The Distribution Matters
Expected value only captures one aspect of a probability system.
Inaccessible Rail
Why is the world's smallest flightless bird called that?
Number Detective
Explaining an unexpected numerical pattern.
Double Space Court Case
A court case spends a few weeks arguing about the meaning of double space formatting.
PIDs: Creating Stable Control in Games
Using a game use-case to motivate and explain PIDs
2023 Year Review
A year of making things: "The Ump Show" and Writing.
Infinite Systems Failing in a Finite World
Infinite systems don't have to worry about behavior at the edges but finite systems do.
π in Other Universes
How the value of π depends on the definition of distance.
Intuition for Cryptography
Building an understanding of common cryptographic use-cases without delving into the deep end.
Boundaries of Predictability
Exploring the limits of predictions of physical systems and what we can learn from it.
Breaking Changes in Distributed Systems
Distributed systems don't have atomic deployments so making breaking changes requires careful planning.
What Is a URL
Dangers of inconsistent parsing of URLs
Dakhni and Linguistic Prestige
Perceived importance is disconnected from any intrinsic property of the language.
Why is Mars's Moon Traveling the Wrong Way?
Explaining the discrepancy between Phobos's orbit and its apparent motion across the Martian sky
2022 Year Review
Reflecting on projects and books/articles from 2022
Degenerate Matter: How Reality Deals With Uncertainty
Casual introduction to the uncertainty principle from quantum mechanics and how it leads to neutron stars and superfluids
C++: How to Use Variadic Templates
Intro to variadic templates and complications when function overloading isn't available
Setting Up Fauxpilot for Code Completion
Guide on using Fauxpilot with VScode to get local code completion like Copilot
Delayed 2021 Year Review
Quick review of things I explored in 2021
Homomorphic Encryption with Images
Exploring homomorphic encryption to apply algorithms on encrypted images
Parallelizing C++ using Execution Policies
C++17 support for Execution Policies for "algorithms" provides a powerful tool to parallelize your code.
Equivalence Relations and Partitions
An equivalence relation fully partitions a set.
Abstract Algebra: Introduction to Groups
Groups are a set with a binary operation that fits some requirements.
Improving Git's Autocorrect Feature
Exploring the new setting for the Git autocorrect and my experience in contributing this feature to the Git codebase.
Mughal Art
Thoughts on Mughal art/paintings from 1500-1700 AD
Year Review 2020
Reviewing 2020, all the while ignoring the obvious 2020 things.
Books Review 2019
Review of books I read in 2019
Solving Non-Existent Problems with Serverless
Using AWS serverless Lambda as a webhook and an authentication service. Also using the serverless CLI tool.
Books Review 2018
Review of books I read in 2018
Articles Review 2018
Collection of interesting articles I read in 2018
Setting up Gogs (git hosting) on Omega2
Setting up private git hosting on the world's smallest Linux server (omega2) using Gogs and Postgres
Cmd+Ctrl Hackathon at DEFCON 25 (2017)
Cmd+Ctrl (cmdncntrl) Hackathon at DEFCON 25 (2017) writeup
Books Review 2017
Reviews of books I read in 2017
Articles Review 2017
Collection of interesting articles I read in 2017