Final Oreo Post
August 21, 2013, 12:00 amThere have been a couple of questions regarding the validity of my measuring process. The one that irked me the most was the fact that I had never measured the weight of the wafers of the Double Stuf. Was it possible that the wafers for the Oreo and Double Stuf were different...
Oreo Verification
August 20, 2013, 12:00 amSo things have gone a bit crazy lately. While on summer vacation, this happened:
All for a blog post that I wrote in February.
(My previous high for views in one day was 299.)
In the original post where my class suggests that the Double Stuf Oreo is only 1.86x stuffed, the data set is small....
Break a Weighing Stone
July 23, 2013, 12:00 amFrom the weekly car talk puzzler:
RAY: A farmer had a 40-pound stone which he could use to weigh 40 pounds of feed; he would sell feed in 40 pounds, or bales of hay, or whatever. He had a balance scale; he put the stone on one side and pile the other side with feed or hay, and when it balanced,...
Bouncing balls python simulation
July 4, 2013, 12:00 amLinked from the Visualizing Math blog, a cool simulation of bouncing balls with randomized gravity and bouncing coefficients.
Forward Slash Reality
Check out the video too.
Chaos Game
July 3, 2013, 12:00 amThe chaos game, previously seen on Frank Noschese’s 180 blog and Jonathan Clayton’s blog Infinite Sums.
I had to make this myself (deja vu?). Here’s what I made (processing 2.0):
Check it out live. All these live links will probably work great on your smartphone too. Source code.
...Fractal Brownian Tree
June 6, 2013, 12:00 am
@fawnpnguyen whoa. Need to try and make this.
— Dan Anderson (@dandersod) June 4, 2013
I started off and used VPython to create the fractal, but it was slow and buggy. Here’s a movie of my first attempt. When you click you create a new “seed” for the fractal to start.
So I rewrote...
Painting Puzzler – Car Talk
June 2, 2013, 12:00 amI never could remember how to solve these type of questions.
RAY: Tommy, Dougie and I are sitting around the office one day at Car Talk Plaza. We were noticing how dingy the place looked. We’d been there 15 years, and the place had never been painted. So, we decided to paint Car Talk Plaza.
W...
Big Ice Cubes
May 29, 2013, 12:00 amAre big ice cubes worth it? Do they dilute your drink slower?
Dr. Drang looks at the math behind it. This needs some more investigation. Also: sphere icecubes.
Microsoft Lies? Diagonal Screen Size vs Area
May 24, 2013, 12:00 amMicrosoft has put up an ad comparing various Windows tablets to the iPad.
So bigger is better right? On their original ad they claimed that the ASUS VivoTab Smart tablet had more area than the iPad.
But Elliot Temple claims the following:
How can the screen with a larger diagonal m...
Follow-up to 50 billion app downloads
May 21, 2013, 12:00 amSo 50 billion apps downloaded on the iTunes store has come and gone, and I have nothing to show for it (except for a bunch of fun learning and some excitement for the next time).