Dr James B. Calvert edit / delete

A site about... everything. I think I got here via the comprehensive section on railway signalling, then got sucked into the tutorial on ancient Greek and the history of the telegraph.

to greek history latin linguistics maths physics railways science telegraph ... on 18 January 2015

Why a Bunch of Science Writers Are Writing About a Fictional Planet › Communication Breakdown edit / delete

A collection of science writers explore the flora, fauna and climate of Tatooine. Excellent stuff.

to amusements science sf star-wars ... on 24 July 2014

Wheel running in the wild edit / delete

Apparently if you put a hamster wheel outside, a significant number of wild mice will happily use it. As will slugs. And the occasional frog. With photos.

to amusements animal behaviour mice science ... on 24 May 2014

SciPy Cookbook edit / delete

With lots of handy guides for scientific data processing with Python. A good starting point.

to analysis data matplotlib plotting python science scipy statistics ... on 28 April 2014

RationalWiki edit / delete

Often amusing, although there's a fine line between being rational and being smug.

to amusements atheism rationality science wiki ... on 27 April 2014

Statistics with Confidence edit / delete

Susan's stats tutorial (which I first saw at ICARIS 2009). Highly recommended for students who're doing performance measurement.

to ag0803 benchmarking honours performance science significance statistics ... on 19 March 2014

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

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