This article will be part of a series about connecting an esp8266 device to AWS Iot. I will be taking a step by step approach and also attempting to highlight some blockers I had along the way to try and make the process as simple as possible. This will not serve as a comprehensive guide to any of the services or libraries I will be talking about today. Feel free to ask me questions!

In keeping with my lack of theme or standard purpose for this blog, I wanted to review to games that serve as sequels to their respective franchises. I was going to review a pseudoscience film- well more critique its methodology- but instead this post will be happening first. This time the games in question are Bayonetta 2 and Portal 2. While both feature portals to places that would normally break any semblance of known physical rules they are quite far of from each other for everything else.

So recently I found my way over to the Virginia Department of Elections to check my registration status. I have never dwelled too long in the website before, but I found myself inquisitive that day. It’s a very nice website and props to the designers for it’s concise nature. The site contains information and results of Virginia Elections going back to at least 2005 including an interestingly named file called “All-time Top Vote Getter”.

This was assigned to me as a problem to solve and I thought I did a decent enough job to talk about it here. Essentially, the goal was to create a Simpson’s Rule for nonuniform points. To do this we looked at creating discrete points using \(x_j = ihe^{i\alpha}\):

I love Lindsay Ellis the same way that one loves a cup of tea on a rainy day while reading a book. I first started watching her videos after she posted “Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding” and immediately loved the almost punchy witticism that I find lacking in similar Youtube popculture/commentator/media critical personalities. There just seems to be this genuinely real person that can and has spent an hour on screen (and countless hours offscreen) discussing the intricacies of the litigation of Omegaverse.