Tom Moertel’s Blog
On occasion I write about solving problems with math, data, and software, and also about other things I’m interested in. When I do, this is where I write it.
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Recent Posts
- Sampling with SQL – August 23, 2024
- Dice Race (part 1) – June 24, 2023
- A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack – December 14, 2013
- Tricks of the trade: Recursion to Iteration, Part 4: The Trampoline – June 12, 2013
- Tricks of the trade: Recursion to Iteration, Part 3: Recursive Data Structures – June 3, 2013
- Lazy merging in Python using streams – May 26, 2013
- Tricks of the trade: Recursion to Iteration, Part 2: Eliminating Recursion with the Time-Traveling Secret Feature Trick – May 14, 2013
- Tricks of the trade: Recursion to Iteration, Part 1: The Simple Method, secret features, and accumulators – May 11, 2013
- Odds and the evidence of a single coin toss – March 4, 2013
- The second-order-diff Git trick – February 18, 2013
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