Programming
TuringJest is a social deception game with a twist. You want to act like an NPC! I've been working on TuringJest for a few weeks now with the help of a couple friends and the project is coming along brilliantly. I posted the game on the orange site
thoughts
2023 kicked off with a Bing thanks to the introduction of Sydney, Microsoft's controversial new search assistant that seems entirely capable of having emotional breakdowns and professing its love. A common sentiment I hear is, "well it's just predicting the next character or word. It
Programming
Beautiful design is addicting to look at. This fact is especially true when the design is brilliantly simple. I first saw https://2pml.com/ on a chilly Saturday morning and the greed to have the same immediately began to bubble and fester. If only I was a software developer who
Programming
Secrets is a Python module that snuck into my Python installations, completely without my knowledge. Added in 2016, I had already been developing using Python for a few years and had developed my own methods for random ID generation. Oftentimes I would write some code that looked like this: import
Programming
OpenAI has a publicly available API for their GPT-3 model, "text-davinci-003". This API provides a simple and clean interface for text completions. See the example below for a demonstration for just how easy it is. import os import openai openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY&
thoughts
2022 lasted about 12 months. During those months, I learned a lot, formed many opinions, and hopefully make some things that are built to last. January Coming off the sheer relaxation instilled by the Christmas - New Years period, I dont remember much from January. I had my birthday. More
Programming
To make products people use, one needs some frontend skills. Historically, frontend is a weakness of mine and I've been constrained to clunky CLIs and APIs to get what I want to do done. No longer! Last week I sat myself down and read the Svelte and SvelteKit
Programming
Recently, I've been doing some shopping around for a new way to host my toy projects. I've used a variety of solution but always had a soft spot for Heroku. Heroku is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that has been receiving a lot of negative
Programming
Recently, I have been learning about optimal options pricing under various sets of assumptions. The introduction to risk-neutral options pricing is the Black-Scholes model, which assumes you have an arbitrage free market with at least one risk-free asset and one risky asset. Additionally you assume that the log-price of the
math
In a previous post I discussed the potential benefits for using Monte Carlo simulations in place of traditional statistical modeling. Here, I would like to consider an interesting stats puzzle that I found to be non-trivial (read hard), which has a relatively tidy solution. First, we will investigate the solution
Programming
One characteristic that almost every engineer is the innate desire to create. These feelings of creativity can manifest differently from one engineer to another, be it web-dev, algorithm design, manufacturing projects, raspberry pi, etc.. This desire to build something is universal. So when I decided (for maybe the 100th time)
Programming
Container With Most Water (Problem #11) on the popular competitive programming site LeetCode [leetcode.com] is called “Container With Most Water.” The question prompt is as follows: “Given n non-negative integers a1, a2, …, an , where each represents a point at coordinate (i, ai). n vertical lines are drawn such that