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Happy birthday Agnesi!
Maria Gaetana Agnesi is credited to be the first western woman to gain a reputation as s mathematician. The mathematical curve that bears her name, the witch of Agnesi, appeared in her book Instituzioni analitiche… Read More »Happy birthday Agnesi!
Happy birthday Dorothy Hodgkin
Very glad to see that today’s Google Doodle is dedicated to the 104th birthday anniversary of Dorothy Hodgkin, known for the development of protein crystallography and establishing the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin. X-ray… Read More »Happy birthday Dorothy Hodgkin
Now reading: The Second Machine Age
Now reading: The Second Machine Age by E Brynjolfsson and A McAfee
Getting the latest version of Jekyll to work
I have been playing on and off with Jekyll and I find it very interesting, useful and once installed, easy tool for creating posts. However, the installation may or may not be that easy. Last… Read More »Getting the latest version of Jekyll to work
Big Push for Big Data
Re-blogged from the Morning Download: CIO Journal – WSJ. The Morning Download comes from the editors of CIO Journal and cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. The Morning Download: Big… Read More »Big Push for Big Data
Changing date/time in Ubuntu virtualbox
I was a bit puzzled by the fact I could not easily change the date/time in an instance of a virtualbox as used by the High Performance Scientific Computing Coursera course run by Dr. Randall J.… Read More »Changing date/time in Ubuntu virtualbox