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Aug 14

Aug 14 Automating a Caesar Solver

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Cryptography

I automate the solving of a caesar cipher. This is a building block for something to come....§

Aug 13

Aug 13 Big European Bubble Chamber

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Physics

A look back at the Big European Bubble Chamber

Aug 12

Aug 12 Establishing the key length from Vigenère cipher text

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Cryptography

In this post I find the length of the key that was used to encipher some text using the Vigenère method

Aug 11

Aug 11 Bennu Dry Run

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Space

A look at the Osiris Rex close pass

Aug 10

Aug 10 Attempting to analyse Vigenère

Murk

Cryptography

In this post I compare the a monoalphabetic cipher to a polyalphabetic one

Aug 9

Aug 9 Arithmetic Tricks - Squaring

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Maths

A quick look at some arithmetic tricks for calculating without a calculator

Aug 8

Aug 8 Orbital Mechanics - Part 3

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Physics

I look at the reasoning that lead to the Newton’s law of gravity

Aug 7

Aug 7 Vigenère in Python

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Cryptography

Here I present some code for working with the Vigenère cipher

Aug 6

Aug 6 Le Tour 2020

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Cycling

I try and explain the beauty that is the Tour de France

Aug 5

Aug 5 Photon-Photon collisions induce W⁺/W⁻ production

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Physics

CERN has observed photon-photon interactions producing W⁺ and W⁻ bosons, with an 8 sigma significance.

Aug 5

Aug 5 Starship SN5 Hop Test - SpaceX video

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Space

Thanks to SpaceX for sharing this glorious video!

Aug 4

Aug 4 Starship Hop Test - Second try for SN5

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Space

A link to the live feed of the hop test for starship

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