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Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz—Stephen Wolfram Blog
A nice overview of Leibniz's contributions to computational thinking, with many photos of his notes.
to ag0700 computational-thinking computing history leibniz maths retrocomputing ... on 10 July 2014
A graded series of maths problems for programmers to try out. Students looking for some programming problems might like to try this.
to ag0700 ag0803 maths programming teaching ... on 28 April 2014
Lots of resources related to computer implementations of decimal arithmetic -- including lots of cases where binary floating-point isn't the right thing to use.
to arithmetic computation decimal floating-point maths numerical ... on 25 March 2014
Why standard deviation isn't necessarily that useful.
to ag0803 maths statistics ... on 17 January 2014
How not to lie with statistics: the correct way to summarize benchmark results
"Using the arithmetic mean to summarize normalized benchmark results leads to mistaken conclusions that can be avoided by using the preferred method: the geometric mean."
to ag0803 benchmarking maths statistics ... on 14 December 2013
I got here via the comprehensive section on American early broadcast radio (while looking to see which of the Mercury Theatre's radio productions survive -- turns out many of them do and they're pretty good). The maths stuff here is at least as interesting, though.
to broadcasting history maths radio retrotech stamps ... on 01 December 2013
Welcome — Statistics Done Wrong
"From basic t tests and standard error calculations to Cox proportional hazards models and geospatial kriging systems, we rely on statistics to give answers to scientific problems. This is unfortunate, because most of us don’t know how to do statistics."
to maths science statistics teaching ... on 01 December 2013
With links to lots of useful Python packages for scientific computing. Not new, but it's a good survey of just how far it's come.
to maths python science statistics teaching ... on 01 December 2013
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
(1) is "it's not written in TeX".
to academia maths peer-review publishing ... on 02 August 2013
Recognizing numbers | The Endeavour
Neat. (Although I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't recognise pi as being a good approximation to pi by default.)
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tasty by Adam Sampson.