For the last few months I have been haunted by a math problem that I just could not solve. I needed to get it right for a computer graphics project that I’ve been working on.<\/p>\n
I kept coming back to it, but to no avail. Eventually I put together a fake approximation which sort of works if you don’t look too closely.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, that was not very satisfying.<\/p>\n
Today, nestled at home on a Sunday afternoon, I decided to revisit the problem. I put in the laundry, had some homemade cold brew, ate a chocolate rugelach, and got to work.<\/p>\n
And lo and behold, I actually solved it. Now I don’t need to use a cheap approximation, because I have the real thing!<\/p>\n
I wonder why I was suddenly able to solve that problem today. Maybe it was the rugelach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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