Pat Browne

Recent posts

Dec 2025
Belichick's library — About Bill Belichick's football library and my search page for it
Jul 2025
How has Anki benefitted me so far? — Reflecting on what I have gained from using Anki sporadically for two years, and thinking about how I want to use it now
Jul 2025
Three probability problems — How much do I really understand?
Jul 2025
The lognormal distribution — Learning what I do not understand
Jul 2025
A new blog — Writing more words using shorter posts
Dec 2024
Building circuits with the 74HC595 (Part 1) — Understanding shift registers using datasheets and circuits
Nov 2024
SAL/SAR/SHL/SHR — Shift — The shift operation has a maximum operand size
Oct 2024
Counting assembly instructions — Writing shell scripts to count assembly mnemonics
Oct 2024
Right to left computability — Exploring parallelizable bit tricks
Sep 2024
Understanding learning with errors — Examining a computational hardness assumption in cryptography
Mar 2024
Real-life examples of Markov chains — Trying to model daily events in my life using Markov chains
Mar 2024
Why do commands require tabs in a Makefile? — An unfortuate historical example of backwards compatibility