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Aeronautical decision making in the twenty-first century. Flying to Mobile for an ASMS board meeting, instrument currency, and planning around storms.

Using git to prevent the finger-pointing game before it starts. git grep across 100+ imported Subversion tags found which release changed a default.

So pure. A literate Haskell word ladder program: breadth-first search through a dictionary, using the State and list monads to track the search fringe.

It just looks so boring. A Python word ladder solver: breadth-first search through a dictionary for the shortest ladder, and a list-comprehension slowdown.

What is induced drag? Clearing up the PHAK’s vague answer: aircraft induced drag is the rearward part of the lift vector, shown with a diagram and vector math.