Pattern recognition is central to chess mastery, artificial intelligence, and life. While chess patterns are domain-specific, the way we acquire them reflects a deeper truth about how intelligence works.
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A reflection on The Matrix's Cypher and the question of whether choosing illusion over truth is really betrayal—or just human nature. Ties in themes of spiritual escape, Christian belief, and the biological drive for comfort.
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The first in a series of posts about how chess is a model for life, on how the game relates to various aspects of conflict
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In my quest to learn more about the inner workings of the finite element method and its programming implementation, I have started off attempting to program the simplest of FEA models and analyses via the direct stiffness method. (Here is my work so far on the topic of this article …
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Overview of Python's staticmethod and classmethod decorators.
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Tables for threads in UNC and UNF including derived properties such as tensile area and tensile area-equivalent diameter.
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Property tables for welds when treated as a line using the Blodgett method.
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Previous iterations of this site used the Ghost blogging platform which utilized a custom theme. In order to upload it to the Ghost application a zipped folder of the theme is required. To save mouse clicks and keyboard strokes, I wrote a Python script to zip the theme files and …