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Idly looking up a coding problem got me to investigate Dyck Languages, which led me to update my binary tree Go package.| Information Camouflage
I’ve got even more ideas for Starship Troopersfanfic. If you think you can write one of these, do it! Let me know so I can read it.| Information Camouflage
There’s an older programming job interview question: Given a string of round, curly, and square open and closing brackets, return whether the brackets are balanced (well-formed). For example, given the string “([])”, you should return true. Given the string “([)]” or “((()”, you should return false.| Information Camouflage
I read a blog post titled The golden ratio as a number base. It had an interesting statement: According to Zeckendorf’s Theorem, every positive integer can be represented in a unique way as a sum of distinct, non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers.| Information Camouflage
In September of 2020, I still subscribed to the Denver Post, Denver’s only remaining daily newspaper. I got the Wednesday and Sunday editions in paper because I’m a dinosaur. It’s just more fun to read the funnies on paper. I started to read the Letters to the Editor and editorial pages.| Information Camouflage
Conquest of the Moon (Viking Press, 1953, Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Fred Whipple) describes a lunar expedition that could be accomplished with the technology of 1950. It’s the second of three books that explore the implications of Project Mars.| Information Camouflage
During the midst of the COVID pandemic, I was in the habit of taking walks through my neighborhood.| Information Camouflage
I commute from northern Colorado to Denver, mostly on I-25 between US-34 and the Park avenue exit. I have been noting hazardous material placards since 2025-04-24. Here’s what I’ve seen. Other weird stuff on I-25| Information Camouflage
I read a paper, Oxygen and animal evolution: Did a rise of atmospheric oxygen trigger the origin of animals? by Daniel B. Mills and Donald E. Canfield, BioEssays, Volume 36 (12) - Dec 1, 2014 I can’t find a good, free, PDF of this one, mateys.| Information Camouflage
Today I reached a personal best while spotting hazmat placards. UN 3328, Radioactive material, Type B (U) package, fissile.| Information Camouflage
I’ve decided to stop sinning, and give up buying lottery tickets. That means this post is calendar 2025 lottery winnings summary. Previous: Q1 2024 Winnings Q2 2024 Winnings H2 2024 Winnings Q1 2025 Winnings Q2 2025 Winnings| Information Camouflage
I ran pacman -Syu on my Bosgame brand “Ecolite Series” E2 mini-PC, as one does on the weekend. I got a very strange message upon rebooting: symbol grub_is_using_legacy_shim_lock_protocol not found| Information Camouflage
I watched the 1953 movie version of War of the Worlds because I read the book.| Information Camouflage
I found a 90 degree pick tool in the alley. I picked it up because tools. I use it in a lot of circumstances.| Information Camouflage
I read a paper by Aidan Lyon, Why are Normal Distribution Normal?, which is apparently properly cited as Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 65 (2014), 621-649| Information Camouflage
A Museum You Should Visit The Morrison Museum of Natural History makes a good pair with a visit to Denver area Dinosaur Ridge.| Information Camouflage
I ordered an ergonomic mouse from Newegg.com. My ordinary mouse was making my hand hurt from pinching it between thumb and pinkie of my right hand.| Information Camouflage
I read a paper titled Cybercrime is (often) boring: maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies.| Information Camouflage
I’ve benchmarked mergesort variants with randomly-chosen data values, initial data values already sorted, and initial data values sorted in descending order. What happens to mergesort algorithms when initial data values are chosen for worst case time complexity?| Information Camouflage
There’s one more item I discovered during my mergesort investigation| bruceediger.com
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Wikipedia says, about| bruceediger.com
Here’s a 70 year old paper that’s worth a closer look:| bruceediger.com
From the Wikipedia article on Cauchy distributions:| bruceediger.com