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I decided to start up my old cell phone, a Motorola Droid 2. Continue reading post "#2452"

This week has been very health focused, since my incident on Sunday night. Continue reading post "Week of health"

Awesome: The 10k Apart voting is done and my entry ended up as one of 12 "Notable Mentions", the third / lowest level of prize. Continue reading post "10k Apart: Notable Mention"

The 10k apart contest closed last Friday. I got in a few updates to my entry the last day. Continue reading post "10k Apart: closed"

My 10k Apart entry is now officially deployed, meaning it made it onto the gallery list (was on page 2, but disappeared again) and I have a URL to request an update. Continue reading post "#1269"

My 10k Apart entry was finally deployed and can be seen at its Azure URL, though it's not in their gallery yet. There were problems deploying it, and it took several tries and back and forths with Aaron Gustafson himself to get it working. Continue reading post "10k Apart: Deployed"

I have spent much of my free time the last 12 days working on a project for the 10k Apart challenge. 10k Apart is a challenge to make a compelling progressively enhanced, accessible site with 10 KB or less of initial payload per page (more can be lazy-loaded). I decided to build an implementation of Conway's Game of Life, which I had wanted to do since going to a Code Retreat a while back.

Used SSL Labs' SSL Server Test to analyze my site now that I have LetsEncrypt ce…

I have always had trouble understanding and even believing the proposition of the Monty Hall problem. It feels like it is proposing that the probability of past events affect the probability of future events, like suggesting that a coin landing on heads will be more likely to land on tails the next time. Rather, it's about the information provided by the circumstances. I still don't intuitively understand it, but at least I have now verified for myself that the proposed probability approximates outcomes. I have created a PHP simulation of the game and script to iterate it numerous times.

The code allows testing other numbers of doors and number of doors for the host to reveal. Increasing the numbers shows increasing odds. Even if Monty opens less than all but the remaining door (obviously requires more than three total doors), it still increases odds by switching.