Oct 11, 2010 — Find the smallest prime greater than an input number — that is also in the Fibonacci Sequence! For this one I left in all my print lines that were used for debugging / testing purposes. This script takes in a number, and finds the smallest prime that is greater than... Read more

Oct 10, 2010 — Find the Longest Reversed Substring in a String — This function takes in a string, “stringy,” and finds the longest reversed substring (palindrome) in the larger string. So, racecar would be an example because it is the same thing backwards and forwards! I basically did it by identifying all... Read more

Oct 5, 2010 — Automated Reminder Emails and Text Messages with Matlab and Batch — I’ve worked about 35 hours in the past four days putting together an automated reminder system for our lab. I basically have a batch script working with two matlab scripts, GMail calendars, and various data files to send automatic email... Read more

Oct 2, 2010 — Convert Military Time to User Friendly String — I want to share this, because it could be useful in many contexts. I am working on a script that downloads information from a Google Calendar, and automatically sends reminder emails based on a user specified time. Given that the... Read more