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Asking ChatGPT about convergences of borders
Sometimes ChatGPT doesn’t provide the truth. I ask it why and it only apologizes and gives a different answer, which is sometimes also not right. The following is the entire chat conversation. What are all the points in the world with a convergence of at least three countries? There are several points in the world…
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Weight Loss Science Simplified
The food and drink you consume gets processed into glucose. Glucose is the primary energy source your body uses. When your glucose runs out, your body shifts its energy source to mostly fat and some muscle. When the fat runs out, your body shifts its focus entirely on muscle, and at some point, you die.…
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Layout of Hell according to The Divine Comedy
Layout The Gate of Hell Upper Hell Vestibule For: The indecisive/opportunists/amoral, those who lived for themselves rather than good or evil Charon Ferryman of the damned Acheron Charon takes sinners to Hell Proper across this river Minos, the Infernal Judge Sinners are eager to tell Minos their sins Minos then decides where in Hell they…
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Wumpus Revenge (made in Microsoft XNA)
This was a Microsoft XNA group project I did along with three classmates when I attended the University of Washington, Tacoma. Microsoft XNA is the programming language used to make Xbox 360 games. It is C# with additional libraries. Note that you will be required to install additional software on your PC in order for…
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Javascript code for mortgage amortization table
The below source code is deployed on this post: https://ericsweeten.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/amortization.html
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10, 15, or 30-year fixed rate mortgage amortization table showing % left
I made this because I could not find an amortization table on the web that shows total % of original balance left (as opposed to just the actual balance) after each payment. Here, you can see how the percentage deducted every month grows over time, and how it takes about 19 years through a 30-year…
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Open letter from a U.S. soldier to a family he came to admire in a Vietnam village during the American involvement in the Vietnam war
This was an unsent “letter” my dad wrote to a family he met in a village in Vietnam. I edited some punctuation to make it clearer and tried to add paragraph breaks where appropriate. To the people of Vietnam whom I came to call friends, I feel a deep loss ever since I was forced…
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Working with linked lists in C++ using iterators, push back, insert, remove, and erasing duplicates
Running Source Code main.cpp
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