Murky Ramblings — Murky.org

Jul 28

Jul 28 Four Fours

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Maths

I take a quick look at the classic ‘Four Fours Challenge’

Jul 27

Jul 27 Monoalphabetic Ciphers

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Cryptography

In this post, I talk about monoalphabetic ciphers, and show some Python code to generate encrypted text

Jul 26

Jul 26 Luhn Algorithm

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Cryptography

I take a quick look at the Luhn algorithm

Jul 25

Jul 25 Finding Pythagorean Triples

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Maths

This is a post where I explain how to find whole number solutions to the famous Pythagorean equation, a² + b² = c². It is a method found by Euclid, so it isn’t exactly new!

Jul 24

Jul 24 Caesar Cipher

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Cryptography

In this post I take a look at the Caesar cipher, probably one of the simplest ciphers we have.

Jul 23

Traffic is interesting. When there are jams, it can seem like the obvious solution is more investment in roads. That is not always the case. Indeed, sometimes removing a road can improve traffic flow.

This is Braess’ paradox.

Jul 22

Jul 22 Pythagorus

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Maths

In this brief post, I go through an elegant proof of the pythagorean theorem.

Jul 21

Jul 21 Orion

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Space

In this post, I take a quick look at the current state of Orion and look ahead to Artemis.

Jul 20

Jul 20 Tidying up

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Computing

This is essentially a 'ground zero' post for the site. I have completely changed over how the site runs behind the scenes, I have slashed and burned the content and hope that I'll have more focus going forward.