UB CSE Department: Kenneth W. Regan

Some interesting material on statistical detection of cheating in chess -- for example, showing how a human player can actually achieve a very good match to a computer player entirely by accident, because of heavily-constrained paths in the game tree.

to cheating chess games maths statistics ... on 20 February 2013

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 75%

That's the president of Lake Wobegon, presumably...

to ag0803 amusements comics statistics ... on 12 November 2012

Liquid Asset

"Article 1: by Richard E. Quandt on statistical methods for analyzing blind wine tastings", and similar articles on practical applications of various statistical methods to competitions. Not at all what I was looking for (stats for benchmarking), but useful nevertheless.

to competition maths statistics wine ... on 16 October 2012

Gnuplot tricks

Doing *really* silly things with gnuplot.

to gnuplot graphing maths statistics visualisation ... on 29 September 2011

Gnuplot tricks: Basic statistics with gnuplot

Doing silly things with gnuplot. I'm not really convinced that any of this is a good idea.

to gnuplot graphing maths statistics visualisation ... on 29 September 2011

Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All

This is fantastic. My students'll be getting a link to it next year, along with Susan's presentation along similar lines.

to benchmarking maths statistics teaching ... on 25 June 2011

ROOT | A Data Analysis Framework

Exactly what you want if you're throwing around enormous amounts of physics data. I wonder if there might be complex systems uses for some of their cool visualisation stuff? (Also: implemented in C++, with a C++ interpreter provided for scripting!)

to c++ data-analysis graphics science simulation statistics visualisation ... on 10 August 2010

Stochastic Calculus

Mostly interesting to me for the old radio and Tektronix scopes bits.

to electronics maths oscilloscope radio retrotech statistics ... on 29 July 2009