Numberphile has recently published a video on YouTube called "Red & Black Knights". The idea is to explore what happens when knights of two factions are placed on a chessboard according to a few simple rules.
I wrote some python code so I could see it in action for myself.
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I recently watched an Oregon Public Broadcasting video on YouTube called "The search for Oregon's tallest tree".
This video was originally aired on OPB in October 2017.
continue reading...I watched season one of Pluribus starting in late 2025, and I have just a few thoughts. Spoiler warning: spoilers are ahead so don't continue reading if that's a concern for you.
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I've been working on NFL Elo models for the past few years, and noticed week 10 seems to have an awful lot of upsets.
The night of October 20th was clear here, so I got a chance to photograph Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) just after sunset with both a simple star tracker and with my Seestar S30.