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....
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.
The Collapse of the American Masculinity Myth
For years commentators have pointed to statistics about men falling behind. Men are less likely to graduate, more likely to overdose, more likely to live at home, and less likely to marry. Yet statistics describe symptoms, not causes. The deeper story is not about men...
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...
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,...
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...
Item 39 reborn
Rather than talk about what item39.com isn't. Let me tell you what it is. During an all to recent episode of life that found my grandmother in the hospital 5 months shy of her 95th birthday, I found myself in one of those states of mind that is most akin to molting....
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. What is Dall-E DALL-E is an AI model developed by OpenAI that generates unique...
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...
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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