Here are some of the most interesting ION wind experiments and discussion on youtube. It took me a while to find some of these videos so I figured I would create an index for them here on my site. For ease of looking up and so you can check them out if you are interested
Month: April 2017
Collatz Conjecture
I was looking into solving the Collatz Conjecture and I came up with a couple of simple tools and programs to help out. Collatz Conjecture table of solutions/series produced by a PHP script. n (n base 2) solutions to 3n+1 and n/2 as a series (in base 2) 1 (1) 1 ( 1 ) 2
PHP base_convert
I wrote a simple tool to visualize numbers in different bases to help solve a math problem I was thinking about the other day. It uses PHP. If you share this script make sure to sanitise data. <html> <head> </head> <body> <h1> Convert numbers </h1> Use this form to convert numbers between different bases. <br/>
PHP Performance
I’ve noticed the performance of my PHP is dog slow. I’ve since put in some debugging code and performance measuring code. My code might not be as modular or pretty looking but at least it will work in a reasonable amount of time. Object oriented PHP is causing me many performance headaches. It was disgustingly
PHP mysql_connect is slow 1 second for localhost windows 7
I recently moved my development from XP to Windows 7 and found that webpages I had developed were taking 5 seconds long to load. This was unacceptable of course so I had to track down the problem. I eventually tracked down the offending function/method pdo::construct. I also found that mysql_connect was taking about 1 second