A blog of Python-related topics and code.
Ridgeline plots of monthly UK temperatures
Posted by: christian in Featured on frontpage on 5 Feb 2022
The UK Meteorological Office offers historical data of mean monthly temperatures in different regions of the UK for download. For the purposes of this blog post, I downloaded the data corresponding to two regions: Scotland.txt and South_England.txt.
Linear least squares fitting of a two-dimensional data
Posted by: christian in Featured on frontpage on 30 Jan 2022
This earlier blog post presented a way of performing a non-linear least squares fit on two-dimensional data using a sum of (2D) Gaussian functions.
Least-squares fitting to an exponential function
Posted by: christian in Featured on frontpage on 13 Jan 2022
Many phenomena can be described in terms of a measured variable varying exponentially with a quantity. For example, a processes such as radioactive decay and first-order reaction rates are described by an ordinary differential equation of the form
An Arepo (Latin Wordle) Solver
Posted by: christian on 10 Jan 2022
Arepo is a word-guessing game like Wordle, but in Latin. Therefore, the Wordle-solving script presented previously can be used to solve Arepo problems, but a list of five-letter Latin words is required.
A Python Wordle Solver
Posted by: christian on 7 Jan 2022
Wordle is a daily online word-guessing game. The goal is to deduce the hidden five-letter word in as few guesses as possible: after each guess, the player is told which letters which match in the correct position (highlighted in green), which letters are present in the hidden word, but in a different position (highlighted in yellow) and which letters are not present (after those highlighted in green or yellow; these letters are presented on a grey background).