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  • Richard Guy’s Partition Sequence

    Richard Guy’s Partition Sequence

    Neil Sloane is the founder of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). Every year or so, he gives a talk at Rutgers in which he discusses some of his favorite recent sequences. In 2017, he spent some time talking…

  • A π-estimating Twitter bot: Part III

    A π-estimating Twitter bot: Part III

    In the final part of this three-part series, I’ll give technical step-by-step instructions for how to wire up our Twitter bot, @BotfonsNeedles, to Docker and deploy it on the free tier of AWS Lambda, so that it can run until…

  • A π-estimating Twitter bot: Part II

    A π-estimating Twitter bot: Part II

    This is the second part of a three part series about making the Twitter bot @BotfonsNeedles. Click here for Part I. In this part, I’ll explain how to use the Twitter API to post the images to Twitter via the…