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Wednesday, 7th December 2011

How to get black hole badges on Khan Academy

I finally worked out how to get the black hole badges on Khan Academy. I have seen various claims that the Telsa badge is for reaching 10 million points. However, the same people claim that the Atlas badge is for completing 150 exercises, and I've already completed 150 exercises (and there are now sun badges for completing 200 and 300 exercises).

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Sunday, 3rd July 2011

Python Fibonacci generator using reduce()

Khan Academy now has a series of videos on Python programming, and I've spent way too much of this weekend watching them, despite knowing all the basics of Python (I did learn a couple of things though). In fact, I spent so much time watching video, I finally broke the million point mark (and now have 77 points in binary):

My million points on Khan

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Saturday, 13th November 2010

Game of Life in one line of Python

This is my attempt at writing Conway's Game of Life in a single line of Python (an additional line is required to define the initial array, which is empty in my example, making the code even more pointless):

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Tuesday, 16th February 2010

Cryptic crossword clues and Christmas crackers

A while ago, Victoria and I came across one of the many pages of silly jokes on the internet. The jokes are similar to the ones you get in Christmas crackers, and I found that I often knew the punchline, or could work it out. Soon we were seeing how many jokes we could guess. I had a clear advantage of being brought up with many of these jokes (and I used to read joke books religiously, cover-to-cover), but after a while, we both seemed to get the knack of predicting punchlines.

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Wednesday, 4th March 2009

Esoteric Activities and the Secrets of Mi

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything because I’ve been busy creating my artificial world (and writing my thesis of course), which I really ought to write about some time. But since that seems to big a topic to write about now, I’ll write about something different.

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