For those you that don't know, our high school is involved with the FIRST National Robotics Competition. The competition was very professional-looking. Most of the robots were supported by large sponsors, and were built in the most professional manner. Some of the robots looked as if they were never touched by a student's hand. Still, our robot ended up being pretty sweet, but it didn't exactly do what we wanted it to do. Despite a few minor complications, we were able to play some great defense. Other than that, though, we were kind of bad. We were unable to score effectively. What I Learned: The simple machine wins. The machine with the most simple design was in 1st place. Who would've thunk it?
Carla and I are planning on getting married sometime in October next year. We need to pick a date, and that decision may involve some science and mathematics. :) For example, we want the weather to be nice. To be more precise, we'd like the high temperature for the wedding day to be between 60 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Obviously, we have both lived in Ohio our entire lives, and we have a pretty good idea of what the weather will be like. We both hypothesised that October was a "hit or miss" sort of month; it could be cold, or it could be nice. But, for me, a simple hypothesis was not enough; I really wanted to know the probabilities of decent weather based on historical weather data. Many websites on the Internet (i.e. almanac.com) charge you to review historical weather data, but Carla and I discovered a cool page on cleveland.com that provided exactly what we wanted. I loaded the historical temperature data from 1903 to 2011 f...
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