Avner's Site

Directory: My Projects

A place for all the cool projects I've made!

I made a tiny calculator

Doing rote math can be time consuming and annoying, so I made a tool to speed it up.

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About Fakespeare

When I was much younger, I used to love reading works of fiction. I read Jules Verne and H.G. Wells and Judy Blume and whatever else was located on the shelves near me. Unsurprisingly, I also tried my hand at writing books. It turns out that it's much harder to write a book than to read a book. As a result, my book-writing dreams never really got anywhere.

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How to cheat at Wordle

Wordle is a simple game with a lot of underlying complexity. In this article, I discuss how I used information theory and probability theory to create a tool to play Wordle as efficiently as possible.

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About Snackflation

I built a fully automatic tool to predict market behavior and price indices of popular snack foods. It works by using a simple linear regression model to predict the future value of snacks such as potato chips. I regressed prices against the date and found that the date tends to have a statistically-significant impact upon price. This reflects well-known notions of inflation as predicted by many empirical models, which state that (during short runs) a market tends to be in an inflationary state rather than a deflationary state and all goods' prices will therefore rise over time, often at rates which are somewhat consistent.

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