20 December 2020 - 26 December 2020
Table of Contents
Fourth Week of Advent and Christmas
1. EPICS
Started mapping out SCPI to EPICS PVs
2. Santa's Workshop
2.1. Oak Napkin holder
Done!
2.2. Cryptic Quilt Quotes
Stocking Stuffer book of substitution cipher quotations about quilting. Example:
The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.
2.3. Pentomino Puzzle
Little 1/4" unit square pentominos arranged in a 6x10 square.
3. Political Science
Imaginary reconfiguration of the US into 4-6 smaller countries. Kind of a depressing exercise, but GMT
https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/
has some really nice facilities for generating the maps.
Reminds me to put a robust interface to DCW (Digital Chart of the World) on the project list.
4. Words
Started a little program to find sets of three letter words that share the last two letters (such as "she" and "the"). It's not clear to me why /usr/share/dict/words has "words" like "zo-" and "zZt", so while I failed in the original goal of "Give me a couple of minutes", filtering various words with 'aspell' at least got rid of the worst offenders, I still get stuff like "biz viz wiz" and "bro fro pro".
Might look at https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/ or https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
5. Other
Saw a really nice documentary on Claude Shannon: