Tag: fun
How to win against 2 Queens and Zero of your own! (Chess)
This is one of the funnest, most unusual games I’ve played on Chess Free app by AI Factory on my smartphone…the outcome was unexpected win by me being completely outscored. I’ve been playing this on level 5 for a while and maybe because I’m not an expert, I find it quite impressive at this level. […]
Random Fun with Excel
This is a seemingly useless but visually fun usage of visuals, combined with Excel functions and VBA I did to take a break from my typical gnarly Excel analytics work 🙂 How it works: 1. Fill in a formula to generate random numbers between 1 and 100 (inclusive) across the cell range. 2. Apply 2 […]
Defending base against Hammerman’s 4th attack
This is a short game play recording of me defending against Hammerman’s 4th wave of attack and losing. The game is Boom Beach, and it’s the only phone game that I played this long, and have actually made in-game purchases for more than once…yet, it has no ads. The game is very refined, simple, yet […]
Defending base against Hammerman’s 3rd attack
This is a short game play recording of me defending against Hammerman’s 3rd wave of attack and winning. The game is Boom Beach, and it’s the only phone game that I played this long, and have actually made in-game purchases for more than once…yet, it has no ads. The game is very refined, simple, yet […]
Phone number formatting tips (Excel and Python)
For most people working with data for a significant amount of time, formatting raw data from different sources are both a reality and a pain. Today, I show different ways to format an un-formatted string that contains phone numbers using Python, and Excel. Our task is to format it (either for human-reporting, or consumption by […]
Beating Dr. T at his highest level
This is a game play recording of me beating Dr. T at his highest level 60 (available for my current level 56). The game is Boom Beach, and it’s the only phone game that I played this long, and have actually made in-game purchases for more than once…yet, it has no ads. The game is […]
Can you solve this? Pattern matching
Every now and then, when my brain is bored, I come up with quizzes (around logic and code). This one’s about logic…specifically about color and order of the colored titles. Can you solve it? For more brain teasers and puzzles, click here.
Running code from within another code (Python)
Most of us who have done any programming know that virtually all languages allow you to execute another program from within a program. For example, you start your program, which may start another process (via calling Execute or the like) that’s a self-contained program by itself, resulting in another process or spawn another thread as […]
Analyzing NFL Quarterbacks Stats
Data Science in sports is a huge deal! Even though most professional sports teams have been using them as a core part of their strategy, it was relatively recently that it got much more attention in the NFL…as soon as Seahawks dedicated a team to analytics! As they blew out records in virtually all positions […]