No. Baseball players are always saying things like “mass equals gas”. I subscribed to this belief my whole life because as I got older I got heavier and I threw harder. The powers of puberty and skill development were conspiring to make me equate mass with gas. All this is to say that throwing a […]
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How to handle rational functions
How to handle rational functions: Rational functions can be tricky. You need to worry about when functions do not exist! What does that even mean? Any rational function can be expressed as f(x) = g(x) / h(x); where g(x) and h(x) are polynomial functions. There will be values of x that cause h(x) to equal […]
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Random Walks
Here’s a paper I wrote in 2019 for Math 110. I think it might be helpful for anyone taking a statistical mechanics or probability class. It summarizes many of the basic concepts of random walks, Markov processes, and Brownian motion. If you read this please let me know. I wonder if it’s correct….
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How does a Baseball look?
Ok, I have a simple idea and I’m not sure if this is something that scouts or professional baseball teams are keeping track of. The idea is this: a spinning baseball looks different depending on its orientation. For example, a 4 seam fastball spinning perfectly backwards with 100% efficiency will look very white, but a […]
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Pseudocode
My number one piece of advice for someone entering college and studying computer science is the following sentence: Write pseudocode before writing your actual code. If you follow this piece of advice, you will literally save yourself hundreds of hours over the next 4 years of your life. Pseudocode is a plain language description of […]