Tessa KellyUnsolved Puzzles & MathinessPuzzles are fun in part because of the rush of success when you get to the answer…because of those moments where the answer feels…Jun 19, 2015Jun 19, 2015
Tessa KellyPill-Popping Mega-PuzzleSuppose you have three bottles of pills with three different kinds of pills.Jan 31, 2015Jan 31, 2015
Tessa KellyFollowing Sales Rankings, Part III’m building a tool to help literary agents keep track of their authors’ sales rankings at online platforms. I decided on the topic because…Jan 24, 2015Jan 24, 2015
Tessa KellyD3, Web Scraping, and Literary ManagementRecently, I’ve been working on an independent project geared towards the literary agent or literary agency. Literary agents read huge…Jan 11, 2015Jan 11, 2015
Tessa KellyCards and MapsFirst off, here is a link to my mini-model of shuffling. I admit I still haven’t done any actual analysis, but look! I added a button that…Dec 20, 2014Dec 20, 2014
Tessa KellyEuclid’s AlgorithmCoding challenges are much fun. Here’s an example of a relatively easy one: find the greatest common divisor of two numbers.Dec 13, 2014Dec 13, 2014
Tessa KellyFun with CardsIn my high school statistics class, we learned that the necessary and sufficient number of shuffles to randomize a deck of cards is 7…Dec 6, 2014Dec 6, 2014
Tessa KellyFun with CheckersThe checkers project was, in theory, over and done with last week, but I’ve been enjoying it too much to really want to move on. I am too…Dec 2, 2014Dec 2, 2014