How Much Ink Is Used For Each Letter?
Today I became curious about how much ink is needed to print each of the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Naturally I wrote a program to tell me...
Predicting Star Trek Characters with Naive Bayes
I have been reading "Data Science from Scratch" and porting the python code to perl. In this episode, we use Naive Bayes to predict whether the speaker of a line is either Kirk, Spock or McCoy, with my new, work-in-progress data science library.
tl;dr: is-character.pl
Continue reading Predicting Star Trek Characters with Naive Bayes...
Game of Life Glider Audio Rendering
Yesterday I became curious about what Conway's Game of Life structures might sound like on a grid of musical notes ("note-space").
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
This weekend I watched Dr Hannah Fry's documentary on game theory, and was inspired by her discussion of Robert Axelrod's tournament to simulate the iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) for myself.
Prime Number Digit Frequencies
Today I became curious about the relative frequencies of the digits that appear in prime numbers (in base 10).
Naturally, I wrote a little program to show the answer - digit-freq2: