Category: coffee
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Coffee Recipe
Motivation
I enjoy coffee, but I find most coffee to be too bitter. This is a symptom of over-extraction. Here is my recipe for minimally bitter coffee.
Category: food
Recipes
Pumpkin Squares
Ingredients 1 cup mazola oil 3 eggs 1 tsp soda 2 tsps cinnamon 2 cups flour 2 cups pumpkin 2 cups sugar 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsps powdered sugar
Cream Cheese Frosting: 8 oz. softened cream cheese 1/2 stick margarine 1/2 tsp vanilla 1 1/4 Cup powdered Sugar (sifted)
Instructions pre-heat oven to 350 F. Grease 10x15 pan. Mix all ingredients together. pour into pan. Bake 20-25 min. Frost with creamcheese frosting
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5-SPICE FRIED RICE WITH SWEET POTATOES
5-SPICE FRIED RICE WITH SWEET POTATOES yields 4 AS A SIDE ingredients 1 medium sweet potato (¾ to 1 LB) 2 tsp neutral-tasting oil (Grapeseed/peanut/sesame) 2 TBL water 1/2 small yellow onion 1 carrot carrot 1/4 tsp Chinese 5-spice powder 1 to 2 clove garlic to 2 clove garlic 1 1/2 TBL soy sauce or tamari 1 TBL rice vinegar 1 tsp chili paste or an Asian-style hot sauce like Sriracha 4 cup cooked short-grain brown rice that’s been chilled for a couple hours 1 cup bitter greens (watercress/mustard/arugula) 1/2 cup sliced green onions 1 cup frozen green peas, thawed instructions 0 chop onion, carrot, and greens no bigger than a quarter
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Meatballs Marsala with Egg Noodles and Chives
Meatballs Marsala with Egg Noodles and Chives ingredients TBL olive oil 2 TBL butter 1 small yellow onion 1 tsp salt 1/2 cup panko 1 large egg 1/4 cup milk 1/4 cup dry Marsala 3 TBL butter 3 TBL flour 1 3/4 cup chicken stock 1/4 cup heavy cream 12 oz egg noodles 1 TBL butter 4 tsp chives
Category: howitworks
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Toilets
I thought it would be fun to talk about toilets since we interact with them daily, yet, mostly ignore them and their operation.
Components: water inlet diaphragm valve Tank open to atmosphere (usually covered) Level Indicator with mechanical linkage to diaphragm valve(2) Chain operated stop-check valve Bowl also open to atmosphere S-bend outlet pipe to sewer/septic system Operation During normal operation, the water level in the tank is controlled by feedback from the level indicator to the inlet valve.
Category: machinelearning
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Recurrent Neural Network
After watching this presentation, where Martin Görner shows the use of recurrent neural networks to create a new Shakespeare play, I was feeling inspired. So, I pointed his code a bunch of song lyrics.
Background I’ve been interested in Neural Networks for a long time because, fundamentally, they are similar to a process controller.
$$ Output = Input \times Weight + Bias $$
It’s just a line. For multiple inputs/outputs, the equation is the same, but they are matrices (or tensors).
Category: projects
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Movie Narrative Chart
Comic There is a great xkcd about plotting the relationships of characters in a movie. I find it a very elegant way to present information that is otherwise a complicated network of changing relationships.
Primer Of course, the punchline is the movie Primer which involves a substantial amount of time travel. It’s just a bunch of scribbles. Ha Ha.
Back when I first watched the movie (2011?), I stumbled upon this chart explaining the timelines.
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TravelMap
travels I wanted to make a digital version of one of large maps where you put actual pins to show where you’ve been.
Basemap makes that pretty easy.
My code is on GitHub: travelmap.py
Here is what the Raw data looks like:
Year State/Country Trip/Path Latitude Longitude 1987 Illinois Home 41.439691 -88.949886 1990 Wisconsin Dells 43.627705 -89.773422 1997 Wisconsin I90 43.51265 -89.530689 2014 Montana Bozeman 45.713946 -111.068216 2015 Brazil Rio De Jenaro -22.
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Temperature Control
Problem: stove-top temperature is poorly controlled resulting in inconsistent cooking times and results.
Solution: Use an Arduino to control the temperature of pan.
Category: rubicscube
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3x3x3
Here is my approach to solving a standard 3x3x3 Rubic’s Cube. There’s nothing new here. It’s just how I learned about 12 years ago.
Category: stats
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Tufte in Python
Motivation
I greatly admire Edward Tufte.
After running across Tufte in R. I thought it would be a fun challenge to port the plots to python.
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100 Year Flood
Definition
100-year flood, means that the Annual Exceedance Probability is 1/100.
It is a strange term. I cannot think of any other probability that is expressed in this way. In any case, I want to calculate the 100-year flood plain for my area.
Category: vizualization
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Plotly Example
Plots should see a plot here
Code could not finish, some reasons why this could happen: - Plot name not defined. The first parameter of the shortcode is the name. - There is a syntax error. check browser console. Second Plot and another here
table Animal Sound Cat Meow Dog Woof String status = [1 1 1 0 0 1 1] x = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7] y = [2 4 6 8 16 32 64] z = [2 4 6 16 16 30 50]