Wordle, the online word-guessing game recently purchased by the New York Times, has produced a lot of spin-off games. For instance, Duordle asks users to guess two words a time. Sedecordle gives you 16 at a time! With all the games, it can be hard to keep track of them all. It can even be difficult to know whether played a game today or not. To help track your progress, I built this simple webpage. Each name links directly to the relevant page. When you finish, just click the checkbox to mark that you are done. When you come back the next day, use the "UNCHECK ALL" button at the…
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Thinking before typing
A woodsman was once asked, “What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?” He answered, “I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe.” Let us take a few minutes to sharpen our perspective. probably not Abraham Lincoln I'm pilot-testing a simple choice task - participants indicate two different attitudes on a set of issues, then see pairs of photographs from protests about those issues. Participant task is to choose which group of protestors they support more. The goal of the study is to see how the different kinds of attitudes influence the decision-making. (Specifically, I'm modeling the data using a drift diffusion…
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Advent Of Code 2021
This was my first year trying Advent of Code. I originally intended to do all the solutions in both R and python. However, as they got more complicated, I decided to prioritize R, sticking with the tidyverse as much as possible. I put all of the RMarkdown and Jupyter notebooks in a public git repo. Overall, it was a great learning experience. I didn't finish all of the days, both because of travel and because of difficulties working with 3D matrices in tidyverse. I think the best part was finally have an excuse to work with classes in R. Obviously, R's approach is very different from python, but you can…
