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Unveiling the Behavior of Blinds with a Pipeline of Python, Machine Learning, and React
A year ago, my colleague and I embarked on a fascinating journey to uncover the mysterious behavior of our office blinds. We documented our initial findings in the article “Behavior of blinds: A sketch of scientific practice.” Since then, we have collected more data and refined our approach to analyze and predict the movement of…
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Setting up an automated daily posting Twitter-Bot in Python
UPDATE: The developer access was widely withdrawn from many accounts since Elon Musk bought Twitter (now “X”). So did it happen to my Twitter-Bot, therefore the account is not posting anymore automatically. Python is a powerful programming language suitable for most tasks one can think of. Most platforms offer easily applicable APIs accessed through Python…
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Hypothesis testing on football players consciously getting yellow cards to get suspended
When I recently watched the Saturday afternoon football games of the first German Bundesliga (the highest league in Germany), I noticed something that I have been observing for many years. Players seem to get yellow cards on purpose to get suspended for the next away game. Why is that? In a season, the yellow cards of…
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Behavior of blinds: A sketch of scientific practice
At my workplace, my colleague and I were very annoyed by the blinds that went down at least once a day, usually before lunch, although no sun was shining into our office before afternoon (windows faced west). After a while, we thought we had discovered a pattern. So we started writing down the times when…
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Peaceable Armies of Queens – Constraint Programming
A documentation of the Peaceable Armies of Queens problem — placing N black and N white chess queens on a D×D board such that no queen can attack a queen of the other color. Solved using constraint programming in SICStus Prolog.
