This site under reconstruction.
The next chapter of the book Algorithms for Dummies is searching. Last time I wrote about sorting algorithms and I discussed how I had a little bit of a problem understanding the different sorting algorithms at a high-level concept. The book actually provided Python programs that did the sorting and I tried to understand what…
I’ve been doing graphs of infection rates but I haven’t dealt with the deaths. But with the milestone of 100K deaths, I was curious as to how the rate of death increased over time. After digging up those numbers that I have collected for the US but never used, I find the numbers are rather…
I hope you are proud because we are #1 in the number of infected cases and have reached the 100K milestone. We truly are exceptional: in lack of discipline and in stupidity. Maybe Brazil will overtake us since their infection rate is skyrocketing. The percentage of deaths is out of the total for the top…
Based upon images I’m seeing in the news, it doesn’t look like the average American is social distancing. Instead, it looks like they are clustering around pools and beaches, having fun and, to my eyes, it looks like mostly the youngsters having a party. So they are going to bring back the virus to their…
Q Anon has popped back up into my view. One story is the Oregon insurance agent who won the primary for position of Senator in Congress, in hopes of ousting Jeff Merkley. She believes in the Q Anon and her campaign had to disavow her position. Is this crazy or what? My other question is:…
There has been a couple of interesting articles lately about how pandemic data is being collected or depicted. These articles are illustrative of how we should be thinking about the data or graphs we are seeing. Georgia had the most blatant error in handling data. Or was the graph a deliberate deception? The following are…