This post shows some of the most common Git commands. I find it very useful to have a quick reference with all of the most common tasks.

Project Gutenberg is an effort to make digital copies of books available to everyone. They have books that are now in the public domain, which means that the copyright has expired from them. Because of this, their collection is mainly comprised of older texts, and they have over 50,000 books in total.

I recently came across the numbers of convictions and executions in the latter half of 18th century England. The number of executions varied and it wasn’t immediately clear if there were any larger trends.

How many steps does it take to see a kangaroo? I started wondering this soon after moving to the center of the Australian Outback. So, with the assistance of my Fitbit, I started recording the number of steps I took after walking out the front door until I saw a kangaroo.

This notebook demonstrates some basic techniques for the Python library pandas. This is part II of the Pandas Cheat Sheet.

This post demonstrates some basic techniques for the Python library pandas.

The story of Schrödinger’s cat, a cat that through quantum physics is simultaneously alive and dead, has become engrained in popular culture and many popular science articles. But as the physics behind it has become popularized, misconceptions have been introduced into the story. When you Google “Schrodinger’s cat” the following definition appears: “a cat imagined as being enclosed in a box with a radioactive source and a poison that will be released when the source (unpredictably) emits radiation, the cat being considered (according to quantum mechanics) to be simultaneously both dead and alive until the box is opened and the cat observed.” The notion that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time is counterintuitive and, most importantly, completely false. I propose a thought experiment that demonstrates that the popular conception of a half-living cat is impossible.