Getting your blog post to play nicely with Safari Reader—my preferred way of consuming blogs—isn’t always obvious. This post documents my findings in how to optimize a blog for Safari Reader if you’re publishing outside of Medium (e.g. Jekyll). Use the <article> tag Safari Reader will look for a couple of container tags, but…

I am the creator and administrator of quasa.rs, a social link-sharing web application (like reddit or hackernews) for astrophysics. It’s a fun side project that keeps me from getting rusty with Ruby on Rails because, sadly, I don’t use Ruby for my day job anymore. Plus I get to talk…

Synthesizing a full major out of MIT’s OpenCourseWare — MIT’s OpenCourseWare is an amazing resource—I often can’t believe that it exists at all. For the unfamiliar: OpenCourseWare is a collection of some of MIT’s classes, often complete with lecture videos, problems sets, quizzes, and answers. Oh, it’s also completely free. There’s a significant drawback though (well, two drawbacks considering…

How likely it is for each digit of pi to appear? Let’s find out by charting the digits of pi into a frequency graph. Are there patterns? If not, is it suitable for random number generation? Method The more data I can collect, the more apparent patterns (if any) will appear…