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    How I see daily life is heavily influenced by my scientific background. My knowledge is provisional which means in social and political discourse I use working hypotheses.

    Diophantine Solution
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    Diophantine Solution

    Robert Hamill 11 Jul 202130 Mar 2024Leave a comment

    A equation relating Halley's Comet, the 17-year cicadas, and the calendar year is a Diophantine equation, an equation which only permits integer solutions.

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    Pythagorean Theorem. Out of the blue?
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    Pythagorean Theorem. Out of the blue?

    Robert Hamill 29 Dec 201926 Aug 2024Leave a comment

    Where did Pythagoras get the idea for his theorem?

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    100 Feet in 1000 Years
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    100 Feet in 1000 Years

    Robert Hamill 11 Jul 201930 Apr 2022Leave a comment

    For four successive millennia, the ocean level rose one hundred feet in each thousand year period.

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    Altitude of a Landing Airplane
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    Altitude of a Landing Airplane

    Robert Hamill 8 Apr 201929 May 2022Leave a comment

    How high is that airplane?

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    Electric Usage and Temperature
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    Electric Usage and Temperature

    Robert Hamill 15 Dec 201829 May 2022Leave a comment

    When the temperature (blue) is high, the electric use (red) is low. Contrariwise, when the temperature (blue) is low, the electric use (red) is high.…

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    Elliptical Orbits and Center of Mass
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    Elliptical Orbits and Center of Mass

    Robert Hamill 10 Aug 201826 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    The planets' orbitals are elliptical because astronomical measurements are made to the center of the sun rather than the center of mass of the system.

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    MATLAB Excursion
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    MATLAB Excursion

    Robert Hamill 31 Jul 201813 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Data clustering, the organizing of data spontaneously, defines the essence of a person's unique understanding of reality. Data categorization is the method of learning societal…

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    Three-Tier Architecture
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    Three-Tier Architecture

    Robert Hamill 22 Oct 201729 May 2022Leave a comment

    My tool kit programs were mostly restricted to individual tiers. In debugging, there now are less moving parts to confuse any issue.

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    Staircase of Science
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    Staircase of Science

    Robert Hamill 22 Aug 201727 Feb 20241 Comment

    Science has lost of the thread of life going down the staircase, perhaps that's why it can't find free will on the way up.

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    Python and WebCam
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    Python and WebCam

    Robert Hamill 12 Feb 201729 May 2022Leave a comment

    "Ten Big Apps" by Ardit Sulce on Udemy taught me how to control my webcam through python

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