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Artificial Intelligence in Plain English

·Jul 27, 2022

Animal Crossing as an AI generated Hellscape

DALL-E leverages text prompts for image creation. I’ve been experimenting with prompt design for game art generation, looking for a specific aesthetic of “cute, but horrifying”. As generating imagery with AI becomes more widely available, prompt crafting will become more important. …

AI

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Animal Crossing as an AI generated Hellscape
Animal Crossing as an AI generated Hellscape
AI

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JavaScript in Plain English

·Nov 15, 2021

Real-Time Charts with Plotly.js in Angular

Dashboard apps are wonderful tools, and charts that update in response to streaming data are a big part of their utility. This post is a walk-through of how to create charts of streaming data using Plotly.js and Angular. If you learn better from jumping straight to the repo, here you…

Angular

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Real-Time Charts with Plotly.js in Angular
Real-Time Charts with Plotly.js in Angular
Angular

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JavaScript in Plain English

·Nov 14, 2021

Markdown to Angular Rendering Using Unified and Remark

I recently worked on a frontend application that required rendering markdown documents into Angular Components. The app used was used by two kinds of users. One group worked with a database of models used in several applications. …

Angular

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Markdown to Angular Rendering Using Unified and Remark
Markdown to Angular Rendering Using Unified and Remark
Angular

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JavaScript in Plain English

·Mar 14, 2021

5 Humorous and Horrifying Bugs

Take the opportunity sometime to ask a programmer “What’s your favorite bug ever?” You’re likely to get some great stories. They might be tales of misfortune in which some villain got their comeuppance. They could be hard to solve puzzles that led to a personal sense of victory. …

Programming

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5 Humorous and Horrifying Bugs
5 Humorous and Horrifying Bugs
Programming

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JavaScript in Plain English

·Mar 7, 2021

Beautiful Styling for Drag-and-Drop Rows in the Angular DataTable

Angular Material provides copious examples for their components. In my opinion, this is one of the strongest endorsements for the library. The DataTable component has among the most examples, but is a bit lacking on adding drag-and-drop, particularly when it comes to making it a beautiful experience. This post will…

Angular

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Beautiful Styling for Drag-and-Drop Rows in the Angular DataTable
Beautiful Styling for Drag-and-Drop Rows in the Angular DataTable
Angular

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Analytics Vidhya

·Feb 9, 2021

Dynamic Data Visualization in Angular with Plotly.js Events

Adding interactivity to data visualizations can contribute to better understanding of data. One of my favorite interactions is to use hover events to highlight data in another plots. Plotly.js …

Data Visualization

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Dynamic Data Visualization in Angular with Plotly.js Events
Dynamic Data Visualization in Angular with Plotly.js Events
Data Visualization

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Getting Into Chess

·Feb 8, 2021

The Most Common Positions for Chess Pieces

I downloaded a year’s worth of tournament chess games to analyze piece positions (full write-up of how here). The first question I had is, for a random game, at a random point in the game, what is the probability that any given piece is on a particular square of the board? There’s lots to explore, but one of the first things that jumped out to me was the asymmetry between king and queen sides. What do you see?

Chess

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The Most Common Positions for Chess Pieces
The Most Common Positions for Chess Pieces
Chess

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Analytics Vidhya

·Feb 7, 2021

Analyzing Chess Positions with Python

When playing chess, I find my games falling into similar positions. This is by design. Focusing exclusively on a couple of different openings helps improve your games, precisely because you’re seeing the same positions over and over. But I’ve been curious, more generally, what constitutes common and uncommon positions for…

Chess

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Analyzing Chess Positions with Python
Analyzing Chess Positions with Python
Chess

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Analytics Vidhya

·Feb 1, 2021

Parsing PGN Chess Games With Python

I have a couple of projects in mind for analysis of chess game positions. They all require collecting a large number of chess games into structured data. This Week in Chess provides records of thousands of games each week. …

Parse

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Parsing PGN Chess Games With Python
Parsing PGN Chess Games With Python
Parse

7 min read

Andrew Matteson

Andrew Matteson

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Mathematician, software engineer, computational biologist. I like playing with data.

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