Posted on Sun 17 November 2024 in finance • Tagged with python finance
Have you ever looked at your code and thought, "Why does 0.1 + 0.2 equal 0.30000000000000004?" Do the quirks of floating-point arithmetic keep you awake at night, wondering where all those tiny fractions of a cent are going?
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Posted on Sat 16 November 2024 in finance • Tagged with python finance
Handling real numbers in computer science is a complex task, especially for fields like finance and astronomy, where precision is critical. Standard floating-point arithmetic is optimized for speed, often at the expense of exact precision. This trade-off has a particularly problematic impact on financial calculations, where even tiny rounding errors …
Posted on Wed 01 May 2024 in nes • Tagged with 6502, nes, python, wedNESday
Playing around with NES graphics can be an incredibly fun and rewarding experience. Transitioning from that blank screen to one filled with tiles in a nametable highlights the capabilities and limitations of the platform. It's like a window ready to explode.
Through this post, we might use some terms and …
Posted on Wed 24 April 2024 in nes • Tagged with 6502, nes, python, wedNESday
It's been a while since my last update, and if you've been visiting this page eagerly awaiting news, thank you for your patience. Let's dive right in. Recently, I've been using the "wedNESday" project to thoroughly test NES emulators and improve them.
Posted on Wed 22 February 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, double dragon, wedNESday, review
Not in the mood to code today, so let's play a classic: Double Dragon. It's hard to explain nowadays what a phenomenal game it was back then. So before reviewing the NES version, which I'm going to play, let's first talk about the game’s history.
At the end eighties …
Posted on Thu 16 February 2017 in automation • Tagged with ghostbusters, travis, ci, automation, smartthings
I had my childhood in the eighties, and 'course, I used to wake up on staturday morning to watch ghostbusters. Then, when I though for a continuos integration lamp, I know it should have the "prohibed ghost sign"! In this post, I'm gonna show you, how to use your smartthings …
Posted on Wed 15 February 2017 in nes • Tagged with 6502, nes, python
One thing that I noticed on opensorce projects, it's more than just coding. Indeed the code itself is the center on wich everything else related to the project gravitates, but there is lot more. Today made some tweaks on my travis continuos integration, and also had a lot of reading …
Posted on Wed 08 February 2017 in nes • Tagged with 6502, nes, python, MCP23017, raspberrypi
Blender Bigger Brain*
On last week's post, I had a "to do" list over the comments of the "upcoming improvements". So Toshimitsu Kamei came to the rescue again with the IO expander stuff. He sent some study material and sugests a small proof of concept just by following some internet …
Posted on Wed 01 February 2017 in nes • Tagged with 6502, nes, python, raspberrypi
First of all, I must thanks Toshimitsu Kamei, without him this post wouln't be possible. Some time ago, he helped me up connecting the RasberryPI's GPIO along with W65C02S. It was fun, although I was kind of clumsy in this meantime, and them now I have to reattach everything. So …
Posted on Wed 25 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python
