I have finally had some time to catch up with the brand new Observer Tech Monthly magazine, a very welcomed addition to the fine Guardian and Observer newspapers. So, there I was, reading about Paul… Read More »Electromagnetism redefined?
If you encountered a pendulum going round in the Google page this morning it is because the Google Doodle is celebrating the birthday of Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, a French physicist and inventor of a… Read More »Léon Foucault celebrated in a Google Doodle
The Pyramid of Data Science Data Science is exploding… or so it seems. I came across an article by Oscar Olmedo that describes some of the stages that practitioners in the area follow, and I… Read More »The Pyramid of Data Science
Re-blogged from Reuters: Analysis: Twitter may kickstart consumer-tech IPO train Fri, Sep 13 19:55 PM EDT By Sarah McBride and Olivia Oran SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Since Facebook Inc’s messy initial public offering more than… Read More »Twitter may kickstart consumer-tech IPO train – Re-blog
I confess (not that you might not know, but still…) that I am a mac user. I have been for some time now and I quite like it. As such I have got used to… Read More »Fixing disabled bundles/plugins for Mac Mail
This is the title of the 1967 poem by Richard Brautigan and of course that is the name of the great three-part documentary by Adam Curtis. If you haven’t watched it, please do yourself a… Read More »All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
This is a re-blog of the original entry by Peter Rowlett in the Aperiodical blog. I asked in the previous post for suggestions of iPad apps that I could use to help with my job as a… Read More »Suggestions of iPad apps for university mathematics teaching
Reblogged from The Endeavour by J. D. Cook. The Airy functions Ai(x) and Bi(x) are independent solutions to the differential equation For negative x they act something like sin(x) and cos(x). For positive x they act something like exp(x)… Read More »Relating Airy and Bessel functions
R ranked as #1 language for data mining and analytics (source KDnuggets)
I was not expecting this, but it seems that Amazon has decided to make available the MP3 version of an old purchase I made. It is Solar by Moenia, one of my favourite bands. … Read More »Solar