Math problems solved on computers
Here is a link to an interesting talk/text about how we could get people to like MATH: use computers for the tedious steps. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4376306 He has a good point, but I still...
View ArticleShowing off with python
2:57AM on a Monday. I have to be up at 8AM. The faster I get the job done the more sleep I get. Sounds like the kind of thing to motivate a person. TASK: Parse an access.log file and produce page visit...
View ArticleBig data and R
Yesterday, I went to a Montreal meetup about R. The event was attended by quite a few people and the good people of Bolidea offered us beer and pizza. The talk was by the Wajam team and discussed how...
View ArticleNetwork protocols discussion
There is an interesting discussion about network protocols going on at hacker news. In just a few posts some very knowledgeable people stepped in to explain what is going on. I saved the URL in the...
View ArticleA scriptable future for the Web and home servers
I’m organizing papers today, and I keep finding dev-notes and plans for my big “home server” idea about being able to run all your “cloud services” on your own hardware with all the data protection...
View ArticleGetting started with ML in python
Next week I’m interviewing for a Data Scientist position so I figured I better brush up my machine learning skills. I found some neat youtube tutorials [1,2] on using scikit-learn so I thought this...
View ArticleLinear algebra concept maps
I spent the last week drawing. More specifically, drawing in concept space. Drawing concept maps for the linear algebra book. Without going into too much details, the context is that the old concept...
View ArticleMath makes you cry? Try SymPy!
This summer I wrote a short SymPy tutorial that illustrates how a computer algebra system can help you understand math and physics. Using SymPy you can solve all kinds of math problems, painlessly....
View ArticleLinear algebra applications
I spent the last month at the chalet in Petkovo, the village where my grandfather is from. Check out the view from my office: I have good progress to report on the linear algebra book. Sandy (my...
View ArticleInternet propaganda
TL;DR: The fight on the Internet is not just about True vs False, but also True vs Noise. I’m reading this article about Internet propaganda in China, and I can’t help but wonder how much of this...
View ArticleDigital vs. print and the future of books
I’m reading an interesting paper by M. Julee Tanner that compares the cognitive aspect of digital vs. print delivery for book-length material. In summary, the printed book is not dead! I’ve always...
View ArticleThe school of the future
It has been a long time since I last wrote something, but I haven’t been idle altogether. I’ve been planning what to do next for the books, calculating my move, so to say. It’s slowly starting to...
View ArticleImpressions from NIPS 2015
Last week I attended the NIPS conference and it felt like grappa shot: intense but good for brain function. There are so many advances in research, and industry is shipping ML in products, and GPUs...
View ArticleJanuary Optimism about OER
Last year in March I did a lot of soul searching about my mission in the EdTech space. At the time, figuring out the incentives for authors and teachers to produce open educational resources (OER)...
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