Personal thoughts, projects, and discoveries
All the code for this new version of my web site was written by claude code. Yes, I am not exagerating. Here are some of my take aways. Amazing Yes, start with admiting that it is amazing. This is a fairly simple application but it has a fair number of moving parts. The code is all open source ...
Easing is the process of gradually increasing (or decreasing) a value to from a start to a target, without just jumping to the target. Used in computer animation. I used it for powering servos in an arm in a graceful way. There are simple Easing Equations to accomplish this.
As an experiment, we asked interviewees to cheat with ChatGPT during their interviews and share who got away with it. Here is the experiment
A 3-Question Checklist for Better Course Design Only when educators are clear on what students should gain by the end of the term can they design effective courses to get them there. Ask yourself these three simple questions when designing your next course to ensure it resonates with students.
Open Streetmaps is one of the nicest packages for maps. But using it is really messy. Prettymaps is a package that makes it easy to use OpenStreetMaps, in python. It contains a small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data. Based on osmnx, matplotlib and shapely libraries.