Today, I wanted to mess around with something called “Dempsey-Parker.” Honestly, I didn’t know much about it, just saw the name floating around and figured, why not?
First, I hit up the search engine. You know, the usual routine. Typed in “Dempsey Parker” and…well, a bunch of stuff popped up. Some academic-looking things, a few names I didn’t recognize. It wasn’t immediately clear what I was getting myself into.
Digging In
I started clicking through some of the search results. Skimmed a few articles. Mostly, I was trying to figure out, “Is this even something I can do anything with, or is it just, like, theory?”
After a bit of bouncing around, I landed on something that looked like a description of a calculation method, Some formulas involved. Okay, I can work with that. Numbers I can handle, at least a little bit.
- Look for something to implement.
- Find some code.
- Copy that code.
I copied these formulas. Saved them in text.
Making it Happen (Sort Of)
My next thought was, “Okay, how do I actually use this?” I’m not a math whiz, so I wasn’t about to start crunching numbers by hand. Time to bring in the tools.
I use Python to try it out.
I spent a good chunk of time just typing in the formulas, making sure I didn’t mess up any parentheses or exponents. That’s always a fun time, let me tell you.
Finally, I hit “run” and…it worked! I mean, I got a number. Whether it was the right number, I’m still not 100% sure. But hey, something happened! That’s a win in my book.
I think it success.