Recently, I saw this cartoon strip on my Facebook feed from an account called “Homes”. It was sort of funny and true. But beyond that, I couldn’t help but think how much effort would it take to make this into a completely data-driven visualization? Don’t get me wrong, I’m a hobby artist (which you probably […]
Tag: fun
When do we peak?
Recently, I came across an article stating how humans peak at different ages in different aspects. Surprisingly, and even perhaps amusingly it turns out that humans peak at different things throughout life from about 6 years of age all the way into the 80s according to the article based on scientific research. I captured the […]
Three Lines Puzzle with Dots with Interactive Solution
Let’s look at a classic “Seven Dots Puzzle”, also known as the “Three Lines Puzzle with Seven Dots” and if we code it in Python and show the solution interactively. In this puzzle, we have seven dots arranged in a specific configuration, and the challenge is to draw three straight lines such that each dot […]
Python teaser/puzzle: FizzBuzz Twister
Objective For numbers 1 through 20, print “Fizz” if the number is divisible by 3 (no need to print the number), “Buzz” if it’s divisible by 5 (no need to print the number), and “FizzBuzz” if it’s divisible by both (no need to print the number). Otherwise, just print the number. For example, for numbers […]
The Elegant Brachistochrone Curve
The Brachistochrone curve (from Greek brachistos, “shortest,” and chronos, “time”) is the path between two points that allows an object to descend under gravity in the shortest possible time. First posed as a challenge by Johann Bernoulli in 1696, this problem spurred breakthroughs in mathematics and physics. The solution—unexpectedly a cycloid rather than a straight […]
Tickling/testing AI emotions
People familiar with Machine Learning and AI in general understand the underlying mechanics of how AI chat works. But to many non-techies, it can seem fantastic, magical, even eerie with their converstational abilities and responses blurring the lines between humans and machines. In this quick and simple converstation log, folks who are mystified with AI, […]
Unicode transformation fun
In this post, I share some exercises of encoding a usual string of English/Latin alphabets into a readable Unicode version with styling but still into a text that can be copied/pasted anywhere without any special app, and then transform the input text into some interesting Unicode symbols (that can also be copied/pasted anywhere as text). […]
Custom Chess Board Setup for Sim and Puzzles
In addition to solving real-life and abstract challenges, I love playing chess and mulling over different scenarios. When I don’t want to play the entire game from beginning to end, but rather start at a climactic stage, it makes it even more exciting and challenging to play it to the end with someone or even […]
Daily Chess Puzzle
I always loved Chess since I was a mere child. And I still love playing it. If you do too, or just want to improve or learn some chess skills, the following widget might be of interest to you. It brings fresh puzzles daily from chesspuzzle. net site based on famous players but the challenge […]
What would be your NFL team’s Unicode logo?
If you were to select a Unicode symbol for every team in NFL, what would they be? It cannot be graphics, emojis, or ASCII art…you must select a single Unicode character for each team that are in the standardized blocks. That means, the character can be copied and pasted as text in any text editor, […]