About - Project Euler edit / delete

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

General Decimal Arithmetic edit / delete

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

Edge.org edit / delete

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 edit / delete

"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

Jeff Miller Pages edit / delete

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.

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Welcome — Statistics Done Wrong edit / delete

"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

[citation needed]» Blog Archive » The homogenization of scientific computing, or why Python is steadily eating other languages’ lunch edit / delete

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

Recognizing numbers | The Endeavour edit / delete

Neat. (Although I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't recognise pi as being a good approximation to pi by default.)

to maths numpy python ... on 28 May 2013

A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks · ipython/ipython Wiki · GitHub edit / delete

"This page is a curated collection of IPython notebooks that are notable for some reason." Lots of examples of people doing cool stuff interactively with Python.

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