If you live in Oregon you may have seen one of these research papers mailed to you along with a short letter promoting Noah Robinson for Oregon senate. Since this report is claimed on the campaign website to be “the most widely read scientific review article on “climate change,” which shows that human use of hydrocarbon fuels like gasoline is not changing the earth’s climate“, and the data in the charts ends at about the year 2000 for many charts as of its publishing, I decided to get some more recent data to research the most recent trends:
Continue reading “Analysis of the Robinsons’ “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide””Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival
For all our readers in So. Oregon/Northern California area… The Humboldt Math festival is coming up later this month! Mark you calendars for Apr 27th and check out their promo video from last year:
Continue reading “Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival”KNIME Summit is coming up – with free online passes available
If you’ve worked with data science, ML or AI tools you will probably be familiar with the KNIME tools. Later this month, April 15-17, 3 days of data science demos will be available, with free online stream passes available. Check it out at https://info.knime.com/spring-summit-2024-atx!
Green-screening a recursive green screen for a unique Pie-day effect
If you’ve seen any behind-the-scenes view of any movie you probably are familiar with the green-screen – generally a way to combine an actor with some prerecorded or computer generated background. There are some unique effects you can do with this yourself using OpenCV!
Continue reading “Green-screening a recursive green screen for a unique Pie-day effect”Jackson County in High Flu Season – a Statistical Analysis
Last week it was announced that high flu cases are having effects on the health system in Jackson County, Oregon. A top recommendation on the OPB article says to get vaccinated for Flu – does this recommendation play out in the statistical data though?
Continue reading “Jackson County in High Flu Season – a Statistical Analysis”The Einstein hat does repeat periodically… on a cylinder!?
Months ago you may have seen the new shape that does not periodically tile (repeat) like most other shapes, in the plane. However, that is assuming an infinite (x,y) plane… What if instead of that geometry, we try building out a periodic cylindrical tiling?
Continue reading “The Einstein hat does repeat periodically… on a cylinder!?”Maker Faire Vallejo, CA 2023
This year the Bay Area Maker Faire was back after years of postponement! This was an enormous fair compared to others I had attended and included some very interesting exhibits:
Continue reading “Maker Faire Vallejo, CA 2023”Ideas for the Einstein Mad Hat contest
As you may have seen from Matt Parker’s latest video, there is a new contest for the recently discovered Hat and Spectre tiles! For more details about this recent discovery please see the MoMath article about this “ein stein” (a pun for “one stone” in German).
Continue reading “Ideas for the Einstein Mad Hat contest”MakerFaire Central Oregon is coming up!
Central Oregon Maker Faire is less than a month away! This is the place to be for interesting robots, solar cars, sustainability or various interesting DIY projects.
Continue reading “MakerFaire Central Oregon is coming up!”ChatGPT is bad at math? Turns out, so is Microsoft’s assistant.
Recently it was noted, by Arstechnica and others, that ChatGPT doesn’t seem to be great at math questions – recent tests have found one can get wrong answers much more often than a calculator, and even apologize if you insist that it is wrong (suggesting it doesn’t know math after 2021… lol). but what about other similar assistants?
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