As our lives become increasingly digital, the physical infrastructure powering it, data centers, demands enormous resources. One often-overlooked cost? Water! From hyperscale campuses to neighborhood colocation facilities, data centers consume millions of gallons daily to stay cool. This post explores the scale of water usage across U.S. data centers and compares it to household consumption, […]
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The AI Flywheel
The modern AI ecosystem isn’t just a race for model supremacy; it’s a dense web of investments, chip dependencies, and cloud entanglements. Some of the biggest players are simultaneously competitors, collaborators, and customers. The relationships are intricate, often opaque, and increasingly circular. Take Nvidia, for example: it invests in OpenAI, which in turn buys Nvidia […]
Q Calc: A Quick Calculator For Common Scenarios
Q Calc is an easy-to-use, and useful calculator designed for mobile devices (Android, iPhone) for many common scenarios in life. It offers calculations for tips, total after sales tax, total after discount and savings, and cashback. Each of these main features and sub-features are explained below. At the top of the screen, there’s a navigation […]
Cup Drop Paradox – Answer and Proof
This is the conclusion of the original post about Tony’s Cup Drop Paradox. If you haven’t read the puzzle already, please do so first, take a stab (you can submit your response anonymously and see what others said) below: Ok, assuming you have given it a shot and perhaps even nailed it, here’s my answer […]
Farm Tycoon is Live! (Free, web/mobile game)
🚜Farm Tycoon: A Resource Management Strategy Game🚜 Embark on a farming adventure. Make strategic choices, manage your resources, brave unpredictable events, and aim for the highest profit to top the leaderboard 💵💰! Your journey begins by setting up your farm: choose your name, the size of your land, the crop you want to grow, and […]
Cup Drop Paradox: Who Finishes First?
The Backstory I came up with this puzzle variant after watching a video posted on social media of two girls racing to put cups in a bucket. The winner was clearly due to a faster player but made me think what if I took that variable out and introduced something less obvious. And so here […]
Python in Excel — Introduction (how and why)
Python in Excel is a feature that allows users to write and execute Python code directly within Excel spreadsheets. This integration enables advanced data analysis, automation, and visualization without needing external add-ins or additional purchases. Advanced, complex visualizations that are not possible directly in Excel is now possible with Python code that uses powerful libraries […]
Bull’s-eye Diagrams — Dyamic, Data-Driven
A Bull’s-eye diagram in general terms, is a conceptual model designed to bring focus to the most important items from a collection of items. The diagram helps us prioritize various tasks and therefore often used in strategic decision-making and brainstorming situations. As on a dartboard, the diagram has an inner most smallest circle, and multiple […]
The “coolest code” Bill Gates ever wrote
As part of celebration of Microsoft’s 50th anniversary on April 4th, 2025, Bill Gates has shared the original source code for Altair BASIC. He described Altair BASIC as “the coolest code I’ve ever written”. Altair BASIC was developed in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. This was Microsoft’s first-ever […]
Stock Data Acquisition And Analyses (Python, Excel)
The stock market is a prominent topic in recent public discussion. Rather than focus on the market itself, this post examines methods for acquiring stock data, reformatting it for use, generating various calculations and visualizations to facilitate analyses, and yielding insights. I will share my approach and point out some useful metrics and observations along […]