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Friday, January 30, 2026

St Brigid and Fair Division

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 In Cogitosus’s Life of St Brigid the Virgin translation Liam de Paor St Brigid does a fair division into 3 equal parts. The algorithm used ...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Gantt Chart Visualisations

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I remember hearing years ago that real cheeseburgers could only happen after industrialisation, greenhouses and freezing as the ingredients....
Friday, January 02, 2026

We Didn't Start the Fire Graph

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I made a graph of when people in "We didn't start the fire" were born, did the act referenced in the song and died. Because Br...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Where Britain invaded in an Anamaniacs Song Dance

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An Irish woman named Emma invented an the  Animaniacs  song listing the Countries of the World and jumped whenever a country that hasn't...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The 40-tool limit in Tools of AI

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Theres a rule of thumb in AI agents where they should only be able to call 40 apis. After that confusion between different systems becomes a...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Climate Bets on Coal

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 I have made two bets on climate recently.  I believe coal usage for electricity by China will be lower in 2025 than it was in 2024. Using ...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Silvermines Hydroelectric Energy Storage Project versus batteries

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Pumped storage is cool. We have too much energy at night and not enough at peak times. So saving some electricity up is a good idea.  One su...
Monday, August 11, 2025

The best Worlde Words for the Lazy

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 If you pick early words in wordle that have a lot of the commonly used letters you are likely to get to the correct word guess faster. But ...
Friday, July 04, 2025

Grid Batteries could pay for themselves in 18 months in Ireland

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I think grid batteries could pay for themselves in 18 months in Ireland. In January I calculated this as taking 3 years.  Solar in May and J...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Lido in the micro nation of Pimlico

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I w atched passport to Pimlico. A 1949 fantasy about the ability to buy fruit, clothes etc without rationing. The post war labor government ...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Euclid, Fermat, and the 65537 Reasons We Have Never Drawn Their Last Shape

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 1. Straight Edge and Compass Euclidean Constructions From the time of ancient Greece, geometers have been fascinated by what can be built u...
Saturday, May 03, 2025

Shock as Ireland goes mainly solar

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  In the Summer of 2026 there will be shock reported when solar energy supplies the majority of the power to the grid.  When utility-scale s...

Drawing the US flag

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   What happens to the US Flag they add more States They have always added more stars sincde the original 13 up to the current 50. There has...
Friday, May 02, 2025

Let's make Bee honeycomb more natural

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Honeycombs in nature are not entirely regular. In a 2016 study, Nazzi found that cell size variation in honeycomb averaged just 2.1%, with ...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

Percy Ludgate: Early Computer Pioneer and his Irish Logarithms

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  Irish Logarithms are a multiplication method invented by Irishman Percy Ludgate in 1909.  1. Why use Logarithms a logarithm transforms mu...
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