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Jan 9, 2020

Predicting Restaurant Health Hazards

On the way back from INFORMS 2019 in Seattle, I met Ashley Smith and Ashley Kilgore from INFORMS on the plane. After talking a bit, Ashley Kilgore asked me if I'd be…

Dec 19, 2019

GURPS Disasters: Hurricane released!

Water is the key to life, but it is also our greatest enemy. We can't go more than a few days without a drink, but it can kill millions at a time.…

Dec 3, 2019

Analysis of Zoning Boards for Charter Review

Two weeks ago, I was tasked by the Charter Review Commission to come up with a quick report and analysis of how other counties in Maryland have structured their zoning change processes.…

Nov 20, 2019

Creating a Two-Phase Clock...Almost

A quick update on this. I built the clock described in this video over the weekend: Astable 555 timer - 8-bit computer clock - part 1 Our computer's clock is built using…

Nov 15, 2019

6502-Based Computer in 2019

I've been learning a bit of signal processing, lately, for a variety of reasons. I spent a lot of time on YouTube watching videos to learn more. As I am sure you're…

Nov 13, 2019

Social Change in Shinto and Meiji Japan

There is an interesting story of social change during the Meiji Restoration of how Shinto was forced, by circumstance, to change. During the Meiji period, from 1868 to 1912, the fundamental relationship…

Nov 11, 2019

[latex]p[/latex]-hacking and Data Science

For those of you not familiar with the practice, there's an idea called "[[latex]p[/latex]-hacking](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002106)." If you remember from your science fair days, you first have a hypothesis, you then design an experiment…