I wanted a fun weekend project that actually taught me something useful about Python. Rock Paper Scissors seemed like the right balance — simple rules but enough complexity to make the implementation interesting. I ended up building two versions: the…
I needed to build an inventory optimization system for a warehouse client last year. The problem was classic: too much working capital tied up in stock, but not enough safety buffer to handle demand spikes. I ended up using a…
I ran into this problem when an e-commerce client asked why their best customers kept disappearing after month two. The obvious metrics told us nothing. What we needed was a way to watch user behavior unfold over time, which is…
My database was choking under the weight of repeated queries for user sessions. Every time a user logged in, the app hit PostgreSQL with the same fetch request, slowing things down for everyone. I needed an in-memory layer between my…
I keep coming back to CSV files whenever I need to move data between systems. They are the simplest way to represent tabular data as plain text, and every system from databases to spreadsheets can read them. If you have…
I first played Flappy Bird on my phone and immediately wanted to build it myself. The original game is deceptively simple – tap to flap, avoid pipes, rack up a score. But once I started building it with Python and…
I have seen the knapsack problem show up in quite a few technical interviews. It is one of those problems that feels tricky at first but becomes much clearer once you see the recursive pattern underneath. In this tutorial, I…
I still remember the moment when I was building a regression model and noticed something strange. The average of my squared predictions was always higher than the square of my average prediction. At first I thought I had a bug.…
I keep coming back to CAPM whenever I need to explain to someone why some stocks are riskier than others. The model is simple enough to implement in an afternoon, but it captures something real about how the market prices…
I ran into the least cost transportation problem again last week, this time when a small manufacturing client needed help cutting their shipping costs. They had three plants shipping to five distribution centers, and every route had a different price…
