Will your dream come true? If so, how likely is it? What really is your desire composed of? And are there factors that affect that, if so, what are they; and which ones can we control? Following the search for answers to these questions, my ultimate quest was: Can we manufacture a formulation for quantifying […]
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Eiesenhower Matrix in Excel (Quadrant Matrix)
Former US President Eisenhower is known to have said: “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” This is reflected in a popular quadrant design, often referred to as “The Eisenhower Matrix”, used to effectively prioritize tasks according to their urgency and importance. This can be expressed in a quadrant matrix (image) […]
HOW TO CREATE AN ORGANIZATIONAL CHART FROM EXCEL DATA
If you’ve worked with Visio or PowerPoint, you may have used their built-in organizational charts…and manually enter the information for each node. But what if you have the data already as a table, as in a CSV or Excel file? You can use that data and create an organizaitonal chart right within Excel. However, you’ll […]
Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Pandas (POTUS data)
In this post, I introduce you to my Python 3.x program that reads an external data file containing all president names of the USA to-date (2022), and that allows users to enter a query to and hear the names of presidents as the result. The query can be a number such as a first N […]
A Curious, Remarkable Artist’s Profile: Wain
Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. Later in life, he was confined to mental institutions and was alleged to have suffered from schizophrenia. According to some psychiatrists, the onset of schizophrenia can be seen […]
Working with 2D Arrays in Python and Graphics
In this post, I’ll share tips on how to create a 2D array and map it to a visual grid to depict it using Python. 2D arrays (or 2D lists as they’re called in Python) are fundamental to any programming language and tackling them requires understanding language-specific syntax, however, the core concepts are the same […]
Blackjack game (player vs. dealer: 1vCPU)
This is a one-player Blackjack game (playing against a non-human Dealer) simulating common rules of Casino Blackjack in the USA. The code is shared under the licensing term as listed. This is all Python 3.x code and has been tested on Windows although it should work on other platforms. It can also be made into […]
Geometric Shapes with Tkinter & Turtle
In this post, I’m sharing a complete Python program that draws various geometric shapes on screen with given parameters (e.g. side length, radius, height, tilt, etc.). The application is downloadable here and can be executed on a Windows device (tested on Windows 10). The download will be a ZIP file called tkinter-drawgeometricshapes.zip —copy or unzip […]
Murphy’s Law – Joking aside 😉
One of today’s most recognized physical laws is Murphy’s Law…one of the seeming fundamental laws of mankind: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” In this post, I discuss its brief history, and entertain the attempt of mathematically formulating his maxim in order to apply to some real-world sitations. The history: The adage or truism, […]
Mass and Energy – Explained Simply
In this blog, I explain in simple terms, the relationships between mass, weight, and ultimately energy as it relates to anything, including your own body mass, and how all of this can be tied to Einstein’s equation: E=MC^2. By the end of this post, you’ll be able to tell how much energy is stored within […]