Recently, an ex-colleague of mine brought to our attention the Microsoft font possibly used in creating the spinning dots in Windows 11 boot screen. The font is called “Segoe Boot Semilight” and is a true type font. So, I had to verify that this is true, and I wanted to try to create the animation […]
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Creating Quizes and Surveys in Microsoft Forms
With the latest release of Microsoft Forms, creating a quiz, survey, or essentially any type of form for free using either work or personal account has never been easier. There are different ways to share the survey too such as emailing; and it’ll even help you write the invite or via Teams to anyone or […]
Finding min, max in a sequence and plotting the distances
Let’s say that we have a sequence of numbers in consisting of whole numbers, fractions, positive and negative numbers of varying length, that is, of no predefined length (e.g.2.25, 5.25, 6.75, 8.25, 9.75…). What we want to do is to sort the numbers in ascending order, and find the differences between 2 adjacent numbers and […]
Electoral Votes by State/Jurisdiction
With the presidential election sneaking up fast, I thought it’d be good to get the latest electoral numbers by all states and District of Columbia based on the most recent census. So, here’s a map chart I created based on the published data. TIP: Use your mouse wheel while holding down Ctrl key on your […]
Calculating Euclidean Distance in Python
Euclidean distance is the length of the line segment between two points in Euclidean space. It can be calculated from the Cartesian coordinates of the points using the Pythagorean theorem. It is a simple formula enough to be calculated by hand but powerful enough to be used in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications for […]
How to create visualizations in Excel given nested scores
Here’s the scenario:We have two players named Eve and Inna in a game competition (say, Tennis). They play 5 matches against each other, and each match is composed of 3 games called Sets.We have data on scores of the players set by set for all 5 matches.So, the question is: How do we present this […]
UPDATED: Find out more about your birthday
Sometime ago, I shared my code on how to determined the day of the week of someone’s birthday based on the DOB. You can check the original post here: https://flyingsalmon.net/which-day-were-you-born/Today, however, I am extending it a little further and also showing additional information about the birthday. For example:The key news/historical events of that day!What generation […]
Word Connect Game
Recently, the game on New York Times has been getting a lot of attention and generating much excitement by the readers. While I don’t subscribe to the newspaper, my friends shared the game screens with me which prompted me to ponder if I could create my version of this in Python. So, after a few […]
Population, Procreation Simulation (Python)
In this post, I share my design and code for simulating some propagating organisms (you can think of them as humans, other creatures, cells, whatever you like) with certain rules. And although I have a couple of other variations of this made in C/C++ in the past, I wanted to do it in Python and […]
Simulating object’s free fall on different planets, sun, and the moon
How can we simulate a box being dropped straight from some height on Earth and graphically show the action in real-time? How will it be different on the Moon? Or on the Sun (assume it can resist the high temperature), or on other planets including dwarf planet like Pluto? Well, that was my curiousity that […]