It’s difficult to overstate how the United States has aged in recent decades. We have fewer kids, longer lifespans, and better medical care than ever. Those things aren’t bad per se, but they do present challenges for a program like
I’ve wanted to post a Matplotlib 3D visualization for a while, but sharing it on the web is difficult. It’s easy to save 2D plots and embed them on this page. For a 3D plot, it works better when you
I think everyone knows what an ellipse is. It’s an elongated, squished circle that looks kind of like an egg. In mathematical terms it’s considered a conic section. That means you can slice through a cone and trace an ellipse,
First things first: Yes, that’s a Linkin Park lyric. I’m not proud of it but there aren’t enough pop-culture pendulum references. I think most people understand what a pendulum is. It’s when you have a heavy thing that swings on
Netflix premiered a new sci-fi show this year, 3 Body Problem, which brought attention to a whole host of nerdy Wikipedia articles. [No spoilers!] One of those topics was the three-body problem. The TL;DR version is that if you have