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Last updated about 11 hours ago

Dithered QR codes

about 12 hours ago

I saw a post by Dave Richeson on Mastodon about making QR...

Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address

about 14 hours ago

I heard someone say that Bitcoin is dangerous because you could easily...

Why are CUDA kernels hard to optimize?

1 day ago

Explosive datacenter demand has caused developers to leave no stone unturned in...

The biggest math symbol

1 day ago

The biggest math symbol that I can think of is the Riemann...

You can’t have everything you want: beta edition

3 days ago

The beta distribution is a conjugate prior for a binomial likelihood function...

More on seed phrase words

3 days ago

Last week I wrote about how the English seed phrase words for...

Variations on Knuth’s Twindragon

4 days ago

A couple days ago I wrote about Donald Knuth’s expression for the...

Intuition for Pick’s Theorem

5 days ago

Pick’s theorem is a surprising and useful to find the area of...

Knuth’s Twindragon

6 days ago

A few days ago I wrote about a random process that creates...

What’s hierarchical about a hierarchical wallet?

6 days ago

A few days ago I wrote about what’s in a crypto wallet...

Punch Cards and Dollar Bills

7 days ago

Today I learned that the size and shape of a punch card...

A recipe for creating random fractals

8 days ago

Last week I gave an example of a randomly generated fractal and...