For this day you're given an input file similar to the example given: 467..114.. ...*...... ..35..633. ......#... 617*...... .....+.58. ..592..... ......755. ...$.*.... .664.598.. and need to find the sum of all numbers adjacent to a ...
Advent of Code 2023: Day #2
The idea behind the second day's first challenge is that you have a handful of inputs given as: Game 1: 3 blue, 4 red; 1 red, 2 green, 6 blue; 2 green Where each line is an individual game and each set of colors and numbers is an individual pu ...
Advent of Code 2023: Day #1
Advent of code is a 25 day challenge occurring from December 1st to Christmas day on the 25th. Each day a new challenge is released consisting of two parts; the first part being to familiarize yourself with the problem and the second part being a mo ...
Building a d Orbital Viewer for 3D Crystal Field Theory Visualization – Part Two: Let’s Visualize Some Orbitals!
In the previous post we created python code to obtain the value of each 3d orbital's density at an arbitrary point in space; now we need create a way to view the orbitals in 3D space and generate an isosurface .glb file that can be read by rendering ...
The Three-Body Problem
Written by Cixin Liu and translated into English by Ken Liu Review★★★★☆ I found the beginning of the Three-Body Problem to be captivating as the reader is first thrust into the Chinese cultural revolution and then follows the perspective o ...
Printing a Curtain Rod Hanger
When repainting one of our rooms we managed to misplace one of the curtain rod hangers shown below. Luckily I was able to design up a replacement hanger using the FreeCAD software! It's not quite a 1:1 replica as I needed to add a sup ...
Building a d Orbital Viewer for 3D Crystal Field Theory Visualization – Part One: Lets Model Some Orbitals!
Last year, when tutoring a student through how ligands interact with the d orbitals of metals center, I was annoyed to realize that there was no easily accessible d orbital viewer with point charges to represent the ligands. This would have greatly ...
Getting Emails to Work on your WordPress Site
When initially setting up this website, I was unable to receive the verification email for the admin account. It turns out that the default method of sending emails, the mail() function in PHP, is often not supported by the servers hosting the websi ...