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• Python code to simulate the Monty Hall problem

  I always struggled to understand the Monty Hall Problem, which popped up again in William Briggs’s site. The program assumes…
  24 Apr, '11

• Cicadas

  These last two weeks the soundscape has been invaded by cicadas, sometimes deafening, sometimes slightly highlighting the silence. I am…
  27 Jan, '11

• Publon: my simple publication Python script

  After using PmWiki (PHP wiki software) for nearly five years to maintain my web site I was a bit tired…
  21 May, '10

• Dynamic Google maps using Python

  I originally wrote this code on 2 February 2009, as a quick hack to publish air pollution in Santiago. The…
  20 Apr, '10

• Preamble to the instructions on how to wind a watch

  皿 Think of this: when they present you with a watch, they are gifting you with a tiny flowering hell, a…
  7 Apr, '10

• The library of babel by Jorge Luis Borges

  By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters… The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV
  3 Apr, '10

• Rituals

  I start every morning making coffee. For a long time the routine included putting ground coffee in a very small…
  31 Jan, '10

• Un cronopio no more

  According to the nice domaintools folks, I first registered uncronopio.org on 5 February 2002. That is eight years with a…
  19 Jan, '10

• The art of losing

  皿 Very few things last forever. Forever used to mean a hundred or a thousand years—even the universe had a beginning…
  8 Jan, '10

• Back to Python

  I started using Python way back at the end of 1996 or early 1997. I was working in my PhD,…
  7 Oct, '06