Rory McgurtyA Comparison of Reader Forecasts Versus Elo-based Forecasts in FiveThirtyEight’s NFL Forecasting…Each NFL season the website FiveThirtyEight runs a competition where readers can compete against FiveThirtyEight’s Elo rating system. If…5 min read·Nov 10, 2021----
Rory McgurtyAre Basketball Shot Outcomes Independent?If you follow the NBA you will often hear the importance of letting your teammates touch the ball. A more equitable offense that provides…6 min read·Oct 24, 2021----
Rory McgurtyPerceptual HashesRecently Apple has been in the news for their new policy of checking images uploaded to iCloud that are identified as child pornography…2 min read·Aug 15, 2021----
Rory McgurtyA retro cartoon about the difference between an interpreter and a compilerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ax90XmUBc1 min read·Jun 3, 2021----
Rory McgurtyUsing Shaders to create a dissolve effect in a 2D Game<iframe src=”https://giphy.com/embed/J50VvtNHypwBDdegYc" width=”480" height=”270" frameBorder=”0" class=”giphy-embed”…1 min read·Dec 31, 2020----
Rory McgurtyCreating a water effect in UnityHere’s a pretty simple tutorial for creating a shader ripple effect in Unity using a Voronoi node.1 min read·Dec 30, 2020----