Scott Hanselman has an interesting interview with James Marcus Bach, author of Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar. Bach lives Mark Twain’s advice to never let school interfere with your education. After listening to the interview, I enjoyed reading Bach’s...

I just stumbled across a distribution that approximates the beta distribution but is easier to work with in some ways. It’s called the Kumaraswamy distribution. Apparently it came out of hydrology. The graph below plots the density of the distribution...

When Thomas Edison was sixty-seven years old, his factory was destroyed in a fire. This was his response the next morning: There’s value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God, we can start anew. Related posts: Questioning the...

This weekend I ran across a post by Shaun Boyd called Ten reasons it doesn’t pay to be the computer guy. He begins with the observation that if you’re “the computer guy,” most of your accomplishments are invisible. Nobody consciously notices things...

Leaf art 3435 = 33 + 44 + 33 + 55 Why experts are morons Math Teachers at Play #20 Passion as a competitive advantage The 40-30-30 rule: Why risk is worth it A regular expression to check for prime numbers Flavors of programming: Data munging,...