Sampling Error

It's hard to generalize.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Primer

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Very complicated movie , and props to them for making it for $7K.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Drawing 3d and 4d graphs

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Very nice .

5 min chocolate cake

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Microwave? Check Coffee cup? Check Ok, Go .
Monday, May 24, 2010

Thanks, Martin Gardner

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Thanks for 95 good years. RIP.
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Magna Carta in NY

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I didn't know it still existed.

Write the future -- Nike Ad

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If you like soccer, this is a very happy three minutes.
Friday, May 21, 2010

Sand sculpture

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This has made the rounds, but it is really good. Something about the fact that the pictures are made in real-time makes it part of a share...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Jane Siberry Music

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All available for download free. http://www.janesiberry.com/janesiberry/music.html What should I take and listen to first?

Peabody's Law

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Small is still small when it is a little bigger. -- p. 92 By Grit and Grace by Reverdy Whitlock c. 1988

This may be the disruptive force in Education

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A guy, a whiteboard, a webcam; Panama! This guy (Kahn. No, not that Kahn.) has stripped school down to the essentials. http://www.khanaca...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Fashion is made to become unfashionable

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Excellent quote from Coco Chanel, from The Altantic . The reverse also holds true, as seen in the appearance of Dragonball Z t-shirts at a...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Kids need facts

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Camille Paglia on education. Thanks to Mike Bates HH '81 for the pointer. Also a good essay from Dorothy Sayers on a classical educa...

Finding number of divisors of large numbers

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Problem 12 was taking a long time to run (too long to fit within the 1 minute execution benchmark), because I was checking every integer val...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Savages

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Better than I expected, not because I thought it would be bad, but because I wasn't in the mood for a serious movie and I really liked ...

Machine made out of pure awesome

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It was great in its original form, but even better now that it's made out of legos .

In search of a better algorithm for finding factors

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Problem 12 has me stuck. The obvious algorithm for finding factors of numbers is too slow to find the first triangle number (1, 1+2, 1+2+3...

Nuke the slick

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I love being an American. Are there any problems explosions can't solve?
Friday, May 7, 2010

Thank You, Rolling Stone

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"We gave these people nearly a trillion bailout dollars, and no one knows what service they actually provide beyond fraud, gross self-i...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Problem 11

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This one was harder than it needed to be. Take a 20x20 array of numbers between 0 and 99, and find the largest product of four numbers in ...
Monday, May 3, 2010

Benford's Law

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The longer you stare at this , the cooler and stranger it gets. "Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lis...
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