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Winning the Powerball

Winning the Powerball

The jackpot is sitting at $467 million for Saturday November 8, 2025, which seemed like a good reason to run the script again. Same code as before, smaller number range, new lottery. Previous Experiment and Result Let’s see what happens. (note: 2M takes about 1 sec....

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8 Harsh Truths We Learn After 50

8 Harsh Truths We Learn After 50

By fifty, most of us have earned our share of scars and wisdom. We finally begin to see what really matters and what never did. These eight truths are the lessons that come after the noise fades — about happiness, health, time, and learning to forgive.

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VisioLizer

VisioLizer

When I am working on something, music is a big help to keep focused. Ambient music is perfect for this. The other thing I like is some movement on screens. I usually work with multiple screens which is great for. lot of things. But one of the things it does is to give...

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Averaging Down Revisited

Averaging Down Revisited

Averaging down is a strategy where investors buy additional shares of a stock after its price has declined, thereby reducing the average cost per share of their position. The idea is that if a stock drops due to short-term market volatility or temporary setbacks,...

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The Traveling Salesman Problem

The Traveling Salesman Problem

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic puzzle in optimization that’s as fascinating as it is challenging. Imagine you’re planning a road trip where you need to visit a bunch of cities, but you want to do it in the shortest possible way without repeating any...

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Dall-E 2

Dall-E 2

To say I have been fascinated with text to image AI would be a major understatement. The image above is of a woman that does not exist, wearing a "mask" and other Mardis Gras paraphernalia.Update: This is a place holder for the state of AI Image generation as I found...

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Stock Strategy: Averaging Down

Stock Strategy: Averaging Down

So, I wish I were a more saavy investor. But I tend to geek on the maths and the gambling nature of it all. I have a couple of stocks that have done very poorly. One is NEPT, Neptune Wellness, that had a reverse 12:1 split. Meaning for every 12 shares I had, I now...

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Mega Millions Results

Mega Millions Results

So in a previous post, I used ChatGPT to write a lottery number simulator/chooser. It is set to a low number of iterations now, but when I ran it through to actually choose the numbers I was going to play, I let it iterate 30 million times per choice. So the number...

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A Day on The Internet

A Day on The Internet

Many of us know the internet is big, but how many of us know how big it really is? Here are a couple of infographics that will help put the hugeness of the internet into perspective.  

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70 of the Most Useful sites on the Web

70 of the Most Useful sites on the Web

Update: The reason I make posts like this is for their retrospect. It is important to put up markers along your way to know how far things have come, or how far they have regressed.As we spend more and more time online, it's important to have a go-to list of websites...

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