Creating a Sonic Screwdriver with an Arduino Nano, Part 1 I was pretty excited to hear about the release of a Sonic Screwdriver remote . But after watching the YouTube demo, it seems kind of lame. T...

What is the Probability of Getting (k) Heads in a Row for (n) Consecutive Tosses? I asked myself a fun question after reading a post on QuantNet. What are the odds of getting two, four, or six heads after five, ten, or a ...

Syntax Highlighting in LaTeX with Minted Here is a quick tip for those of you who use MacPorts and want pretty syntax highlighting in your LaTeX documents. Recently I discovered a g...

Historical Intraday Stock Price Data with Python By popular request, this post will present how to acquire intraday stock data from google finance using python. The general structure of the...

LaTeX Template for Lecture or Class Notes A friend of mine asked me to create a LaTeX template for lecture notes. He wanted to learn LaTeX by typesetting all of his class notes. I th...

Historical Minute-by-Minute Stock Prices in MATLAB This is an extension of my first post on this blog. My first post went over how to gather the minute to minute stock price data from Google...