Category: educational
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A Music Lesson
Arsenio RodrÃguez was called El Ciego Maravilloso (the marvellous blind man). During his time, he was the most famous band leader and composer is Cuba. He died in 1970. I was planning on writing a funny story by going to Wikipedia and letting it choose a random article. But then I decided I didn’t want…
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Another Failure
Hello! It’s day 3 of the 28 Day Challenge where I am blogging every single day for 28 days. Or is it day 2? Yes, I’ve already dropped the ball and forgotten to make the second posting on the second day. Fail. I recently learned that I’m not responsible enough to manage a virtual farm…
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I Love Binary Numbers!
Most people haven’t thought very hard about numbers. I’ve always loved numbers. In the 5th grade, Mrs. Lamberson explained numbering systems to us. She informed us that the numbers we’re used to seeing are in the “base 10” numbering system. “Base” means the base of an exponential function. Each position in the number tells you…
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CAPTCHA!
You may not know what they’re called, but you’ve seen and had to solve a CAPTCHA. The word CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” You see, some people like to write programs to automatically access services across the Internet that the operators of those services would rather…