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Election Results

What just happened? I made a chart.

This morning I woke up at 4:30 am and laid in bed for half an hour, wanting to find out about the election results and also dreading it.

Scraping Website Tables with `rvest` [R]

It’s easier to write when annoyed.

I don’t understand why some websites that provide databases don’t offer an easy option to download the entire database. They’re already offering the data. And, they must have…

Python Game Engine: Introduction to Panda3D

I recently finished playing a game called Ori and the Blind Forest, and… oh my…

South Park Characters in ggplot2

R Humor

Tic Tac Toe (or Noughts and Crosses)

Some R Code and Some Armchair Philosophy

In a world bombarded with messages of how to live a better, happier, more purposeful, meaningful and fulfilling life, I made a choice this week to code a tic tac toe…

Strassen’s Algorithm for Matrix Multiplication

Given two n by n matrices A and B, the “typical” way of computing their product C = A • B is given by:

Matrix Multiplication: Intuitive Method

Reservoir Sampling

Suppose we are given a set S of n items, where n is either very large or inputed as a constant stream of items. The goal of reservoir sampling is to randomly choose k items from the set S, so that the probability that some item i in S is in the “reservoir” of k items is given by k/n. Each item…

Displaying Progress in a Loop or Function [R]

and how to create a screen recording GIF in Windows 10

While I was waiting for my not-very-complicated setup but complicated gbm model to run (it’s still running), it occurred to me that I…