Category: Mathematics
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Underground data
Public transit offers some nice open data sets. I was searching for subway data, and found out that New York releases a large data batch of metro arrival times every morning. Not knowing much on the NYC metro, there was some research to be done, going through the metro map, route time tables, station locations…
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Tiling
A third project for the summer holiday was trying out solving a type of jigsaw puzzle that consists of straight cut lines. The cutting algos I ended up result in one sided pieces, four corners and tight fit between the tiles. Geometry was done with the typical ideas, having polygons represent the puzzle pieces. There…
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What with ChatGPT?
There’s a distance between getting helped by an AI and actually getting something done. One thing that ChatGPT can do nicely is things that have been done often, but that are hard to find and remember. It’s indexing well lots of nuances in drawing charts, first steps of GUI, launching queries to database, wide range…