Choose an article. The numbers on the left of the title/link are there for my own purposes but they do roughly give an indication of the order of article creation. However, They may not appear in that order in the following list for a variety of reasons. Anywho… I think you’ll find them entertaining and informative.
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48 Gerry’s Chen Based YAPFO Theorem Proof
Yep! Yet Another Prime Factor Oddity project.
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43 Obama’s $400 Million Blatant Lie Followed By….
An obvious bald-faced blatant lie, by the President of The United States… followed by… A Roaring Silence?
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40 Pocahontas
Let’s play “Is it racist or is it Fauxrage?”
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3 TRNG – The TRUE Random Number Project
There’s Random Numbers and then there are TRUE Random Numbers. The Truth is out there… In C-Sharp
4 The Most Hated Man In America
“The truth is out there” – And it’s on YouTube!
Obama approves and defends Arctic drilling. A Legacy Lost and a Squandered Stewardship. A story that got virtually no media attention… Why?
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From WW II a Naval Aviator’s “most memorable experience” while serving on the U.S.S. Hornet
Google and the internet yield WW II photos and a couple more amazing and true stories.
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8 Disney fingerprints your children when they enter the theme parks.
Beware! The Magic Kingdom is now the Creepy Kingdom. Is your child’s identity in danger!? You decide. A MUST READ!!!
9 Disney Fingerprint Scanners – Do You REEEAAALLY Want To Touch It?
If Disney fingerprinting you and your children isn’t creepy enough then think about this!!!
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10 The White House gets some bad advice – Eliminate Passwords – Really!
Eliminate Passwords… Think you’ll be better off?… Are you sure?
Texting is bad, mmmkay.
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12 Music Visualization Techniques – A Technical Discussion
Techniques for graphically representing music in the GloPlug visualization plugin for Windows Media Player
26 Music and Programming From A Different Lifetime
Long ago in a 4/4 time far away MIDI, synths, music, and developing music software was a big thing… With a bunch of sample songs you can play!
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13 Fermat’s Last Theorem – In C++ and then in C#
Fermat’s Last Theorem was the basis for a recreational (hobby) program – First in C++ then in C#
14 Sum Of Powers – 2nd C# Program
Fermat’s Last Theorem program gets generalized to Euler’s Sums Of Powers
15 Sum Of Powers – Code Optimization
Eliminating Duplicate Solutions leads to an unexpected consequence…Speed
16 Sum Of Powers – Using REALLY BIG Numbers – A Useful TAUTOLOGY
Enhancing the Sum Of Powers program to use HUGE NUMBERS and a rare chance to apply a USEFUL TAUTOLOGY
17 Sum Of Powers – BIG NUMBERS – Clarifying The Technique
This post tries to clarify the technique for using the BigInteger class
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What takes 200 years to find? I’ll give you an example…
It’s not Statistics 101 and it’s not coincidence; It’s risible.
I had no idea they are so popular. I must be living under a rock.
Vince has no problem making fun of himself.
May you live in interesting times.
24 Bee Colony Collapse news article from Yahoo!
Any thoughts on this news article
25 Blocking Scummy Web Sites like Answers.com
Have you been sucked in to Answers.com?
26 Music and Programming From A Different Lifetime
Long ago in a 4/4 time far away MIDI, synths, music, and developing music software was a big thing… With a bunch of sample songs you can play!
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27 Let’s Make A Deal! – The Monty Hall Problem
Pop Culture Probability and Confusion. Google it and see how many hits you get!
28 A Monty Hall Gedankenexperiment
Yes, our choice WILL make a difference.
28-2 Monty Hall Gedanken – Part Deux – 100 Doors
It’s short and sweet and shines an intuitive light on why you should switch.
Just when we thought we understood we find that “NO, OUR CHOICE WON’T MAKE A DIFFERENC!” What’s going on!?
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Can the Hour, Minute, and Second hands divide the face of a watch into 3 equal pieces?
31 Testing Numbers For Primality
Is that number Prime? Fermat’s Little Theorem and Miller-Rabin techniques are used in this C# Program
The whole Visual Studio C# project in a ZIP file can be downloaded.
32 Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeders
The little bastards are smart. But I have opposing thumbs and access to Home Depot!
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33 Gerry’s Goldbach Conjecture is Proved – Becomes a Theorem
Will it change the world? Time will tell… The truth is out there.
34 Another New Goldbach Speculation Is Proved – Becomes a Theorem
When insomnia strikes at 2:00 AM it’s Coast To Coast talking about faces on MARS, or, See what can be done with Goldbach’s Weak Conjecture. The truth is out there…when you can’t sleep!
35 Prologue To Gerry’s Goldbach Theorems
Easy reading intro to the theorems; it emphasizes their curious properties and relationship.
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38 Inside The Difference of 2 Squares – A connection To Goldbach
Only when we start digging do we EVEN notice an ODD trait shared between Goldbach’s Strong Conjecture and The Difference Of 2 Squares
The Truth is still out there and this time it’s EVEN more ODD.
39 E = Half The Difference of 2 Squares is Oddly EVEN more Interesting
Like The Difference of 2 Squares it’s so simple. But the simpler it gets the curiouser and curiouser it gets.
As Agent Smith says… “EVEN or ODD?”
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40 Windows 10 Game DVR recording demo using Gloplug Music Visualization system
What You See and Hear is What You Get.
Windows 10 Game DVR YouTube video capture demo
Ain’t technology grand!
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There are good reasons why Bernie Can NOT and Should NOT win the Democratic nomination.
37 Quirk
We all have them?
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Insightful Is The Only Way To Describe It… Yeah, That’s It!!! … Insightful!
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If I wanted everyone’s DNA in a database this is how I would do it. Or… maybe I just see too many movies.
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Gotta go and gotta go NOW!
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Due to the “mechanical” nature of Ad placement on the internet…
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46 Quest For a SIMPLE Proof of The Divergence of the Harmonic Series of Primes
Sometimes we have to look at something differently to get somewhere.
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Here we take the notion of “natural” ingredients to a new level. Also… Whole Paycheck expectations.
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49 God Has OCD
Prime Factors – To Share or Not To Share – Sometimes Or Always Or Never – Those Are The Questions.
Sharing Prime Factors in Sum Of Powers Formulas – There’s a Shortage Of Remainders!
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51 Recount!
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!
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52 Fake News!
Even the media that extolls the evils of Fake News is a participant. What’s the world coming to?
Sometimes the headline isn’t enough. Sometimes we actually should READ some detail.
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We start out creating a Class Library and we end up with spreadsheets and a whole new appreciation for internet security
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55 The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Quite dramatic I do say.
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Looks like The Russians Are Coming posting was closer to the truth than…
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57 Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain OR To The Elephant In The Room
Look! It’s another “news” channel panel in a circle jerk. Did I mention he’s from the Washington Post?
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58 Brilliant, Wacko, or Super Drama Queen Acting?
Whatever it is, it’s wildly entertaining and you never know where she’ll go next!
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If true it’s amazing. If not true, I’m still amazed.
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60 How Many Dr. Phils Are There?
Psychobabble definition, writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
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61 What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
If they had asked I’d have told them. btw, is wifi available in the parking lot?
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62 Dan Rather on “news” shows. You can trust Dan…
Am I the only one amazed that anyone would put this guy on a “news” program?
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63 Building a Secure PC Environment
100% secure? Probably not. But likely Light Years ahead of what you are currently using.
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She can connect the dots. So Can I. Why can’t everyone else?
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65 What to do when the DOW plunges 400%
Bury Gold in the backyard. But is that the point of this post?
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66 Comey and the drama (Or should I say Charade)
…………….. The drama. The drama.
Here’s some of what happened. After thinking about it, how much of his story do you buy?
67 But Wait! There’s More! Comey Was Raped!
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68 Gerry’s SumOfTwoSquares Theorem – YAPFO
It was supposed to be another YAPFO project but as luck would have it, the answer was just too obvious.
69 Gerry’s SumOfTwoSquares Theorem Part Deux
Are HALF of all primes of the SumOf2Squares variety? And if so, WHY? Does “randomness” play a part?
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Twin Primes that is.
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Using Statistical Sampling to estimate the Number of Primes and of Twin Primes with the benefit of reducing program execution time from decades down to minutes!
74 . Statistical Primes Part 2 .
Using a different and more traditional method of Statistical Sampling to estimate the Number of Primes and of Twin Primes
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72 Apple FaceID
As part of the solution… maybe. But certainly not ALL of the solution!
NO! Not THAT Force!
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75 . CPU Bound – The Problem With Writing Text To A “Log” .
Windows Desktop apps that are CPU Bound face a problem when they want to write text to an on-screen “log” that is a Textbox. Here’s a solution.
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“… and me. I’m Al Franken”
77 Al Franken MRI Due to recent technological advances in brain imaging… 
78 Damn It! 
1 2 3 4 5 6 79 Eight 
Stop! Please make it STOP!!
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This one is a real mystery. I had to write it down.
80 You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Computer
Followup to An Actual Math Mystery ~~~
Time to wrap this one up. Except for the Epilogue
The Epilogue is interesting and chronicles the last stage of the project covering the Harmonic Series of Composites
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83 Stop Laughing!… I’m Serious!
Did you ever think you would see “the most trusted name in news” pleading to their viewers to…?
85 And Then There Were 2 – New York Times’ “Truth” Ads
What’s THAT about!?
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84 Gun Control and Penguins – Priorities
What’s a bigger danger to teenagers… Guns or Penguins?
86 College Tuition and Student Debt
You can bury yourself in debt… but you don’t have to.
87 MSNBC “documentary” on Robert Mueller
Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, …
88 MSNBC “documentary” – Part 2
7 years is a long time. Seems like it deserves some mention.
89 World’s Best Password Manager
Just write them down. The rest is in your head.
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