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SWEEPEM
In the 1980s this Canso flying boat was photographed over the Gatineau Hills searching for ore deposits using a new electromagnetic system called SWEEPEM. Built in the 1940s to hunt submarines under...
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New Mexico Senate Webcaster
Every session of the New Mexico state senate since 2009 has been webcast using a computer application designed and coded by SpeakerToRobots. The chair recognizes one of the senators. When the senator...
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Talking to satellites
Starting work on SpaceCom to enable error free communication between satellites and the ground using the NASA TC SPACE DATA LINK PROTOCOL CCSDS 232.1-B-2
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KMeans is a windows console application to find clusters in data with any number of columns ( attributes ) using the KMeans algorithm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering ) Usage: KMeans...
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Bin Packing
For many years I have maintained open source code to optimize the arrangement of small items in larger bins in two and three dimensions. My interest in this problem has been maintained by requests...
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In these days of COVID19 and AI, when face to face communication is avoided and Alexa lurks in the corner of every room, people are beginning to sound like robots and robots sound ever more like...
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Ferrero Rocher Trees & Computational Geometry
This little hazelnut tree is growing in a farm in Northern Italy. When mature, it will produce lots of these But meantime it needs lots of tender loving care. The care will be provided by a robot...
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PathFinder
Several times a year I need to find a path through a graph. The graphs might be representations of the layout of streets, the distances between cities, the connections between nodes, or they might be...
View ArticleIn Praise of Plodders
My brother is some sort of mathematical prodigy. When I was in high school I would show him my toughest assignments. Although he was two years junior to me, he would stare at the problem for some...
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A sound simulation
The propagation of sound waves is governed by the following system of first order partial differential equations: The mathematical symbols might be a bit intimidating, but once past that, these...
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