Wild Peaches

Mind-sized STEM ideas and experiments, beyond the textbook.

• The Big Squish Theory - Part I

  Physics of Catastrophic Underwater Implosions

• Fermi Problems Predict the Future

  Part III - Learn how to solve a Fermi Problem and get help from Bing AI and ChatGPT

• How LSTM Networks Can Predict the Future

  Part II - Learn how to use long short-term memory networks to forecast stock prices with Python and OpenBB

• An easy geometry problem that looks impossible

  Applications of similar triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem

• The Prediction Machine

  Part I - Protocols and OpenBB

• CO2 v. CH4

  Carbon dioxide or methane? Who will win the smackdown of the greenhouse gas molecules?

• The First Day of Summer Every Day

  Lazy Days with Astronomy

• Tools of Chaos

  Orbits

• Easy Chaos with Pluto

  Simply Making a Mess of Everything

• The Growing Gap

  The End of an Era

• The Academic Browser

  Your Librarian in the Cloud

• Processing Piet

  Language into Art, Art into Language

• Mathics and Nebo

  Symbolic Mathematics and AI Handwriting Recognition

• Economics and the Stefan Boltzmann Law

  Why do economists want us to live in a searing, burning, flaming apocalyptic hellscape?

• Remembrance of Things Just A Moment Ago

  In Search Of Time Lost Playing This Game

• Bicycle Science

  Why am I going so slow?

• The Sum of the Sum of Some Numbers

  Anarchic Meets Impromptu

• Julia Sets in Julia

  Completely invariant iterations of the holomorphic function

• Seven Bridges for Seven Truckers

  An Eulerian circuit through the neighborhood

• A Research Rubric

  Software to search, sort, store and summarize science

• Curve Fitting with Julia

  Why Oil Production May Not Follow a Gaussian Function

• Designing the Model

  The Ultra Hyper Totally Amazing Push Me Pull You Supercavitating Surface Effect Flying Machine · Part III

• The Pushmi-Pullyu

  The Ultra Hyper Totally Amazing Push Me Pull You Supercavitating Surface Effect Flying Machine · Part II

• Betz The Limit

  The Ultra Hyper Totally Amazing Push Me Pull You Supercavitating Surface Effect Flying Machine · Part I

• Gambling for Fun, Profit, Amusement, Money, General Contentment and Extra Cash

  The Options · Part I

• Havens' Haven

  Chakravala in a Taxicab

• California Tumbles Into The Sea

  Disaster at Rat Creek

• Fun with Physics

  HeuristicLab Solves Your Problems or: How To Do Physics Without All the Complicated Stuff

• Marylin and The Goats

  Mathematicians Fooled by Probability, an R Experiment To Show Why They’re Wrong

• Put Another KenKen on the Barbie

  Partitions with Pari/GP

• Of Sailing Ships, Velociraptors, and Walking on the Moon

  Catamaran Parameters in SMath Studio

• Introduction to NetLogo

  Using Agent-Based Modeling to Study Emergent Systems

• Yacht Design with Mathematics

  A Letcher in Homotopies

• The Kelly Criterion

  Information Theory Reimagined

• Winning the Scratch Lottery

  An Experiment in OCR, Robotics, and Statistics

• The Boonie Conundrum

  Monte Carlo Simulation of a Conspiracy

• How Deep Is That Pool?

  The Mathematics of COVID-19 Testing

• The Wreck at Blossom and Sunset

  The Intersection of Poisson and Exponential Distributions