Charles Zhu’s page

Functional programming, Lisp-like languages, and type theory

I recently came across the concept of functional programming which piqued my interest...

Regarding the quandary of the traveling salesman problem

The traveling salesman problem is stated in simple terms...

Random number generators, deterministic systems and the difficulty of modeling stochasticity

When using the R language I decided to look up the documentation of the Random function which actually seems to be quite interesting...

Setting up a virtual machine on Apple Silicon “M1” Macs using UTM

Recently I had to use an Ubuntu virtual machine (VM) for a course. However, the recommended method, using Oracle's VirtualBox software, was not (at the time of this writing) supported for the ARM architecture (arm64/aarch64) which my M1 Mac laptop utilized...

A journey into basic hardware design with an Arduino Uno R3

I recently decided to obtain an Arduino Uno R3...