Cassville Checkers is a marble racing board game that has been played by my wife's family for generations. I used Claude Code to build an RL environment and web interface for the game.

I've just started to collect material that I use for a class at NYU into a Jupyter book. It's here:

https://cranmer.github.io/intro-exp-phys-book/introduction

The other day I saw this tweet:

Inspired by @ZachACole's beautiful illustrations and @jakevdp's pulsar plots, I just released a library to make "ridge elevation plots" with Python and @matplotlib. Let me know if you make something nice! https://t.co/X3XLnA6qAM pic.twitter.com/UfApYUDTH8

— Colin Carroll …

While preparing for my talk at Gotham Phyiscs X ML I made my first word cloud pun using Andreas Mueller's word_cloud tool.

Code:

import matplotlib

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Masked wordcloud
================
Using a mask you can generate wordclouds in arbitrary shapes.
"""

from os import path
from …

For the IRIS-HEP organization we need to collect publications and update our webpage regularly. I also have to do this for our group webpage, my CV, etc. It's annoying to copy/paste all of this information. The http://inspirehep.net website lets you export bibtex, latex, and plain text for …

I like murmurations!

Bernard Chazelle proved that if each bird adjusts its velocity and position to the other birds within a fixed radius, the time it takes to converge to a steady state tends to infinity as the number of birds increases. pic.twitter.com/Wq9iruUefl

— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary …