Category Archives: Mathematics

Infinity can be a number

Posted on 2025 May 12 by anewc2

Someone I respect and read every day, Seth Goden, came out today with a howler: “infinity is not a number“. This is a very 19th century way of thinking. In fact if somebody says “There are no numbers that …”, … Continue reading →

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Rotating tessaract

Posted on 2020 May 16 by anewc2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract#/media/File:8-cell.gif

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Statistics for Hackers, or, Hacking for Statisticians

Posted on 2018 November 22 by anewc2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvY using Direct simulation Shuffling Bootstrapping Cross-validation Note that the resampling book by Julian Simon is out of print, but available online.

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Modern statistics books

Posted on 2018 February 23 by anewc2

https://qz.com/1206229/this-is-the-best-book-for-learning-modern-statistics-its-free/

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How random are prime numbers?

Posted on 2017 September 29 by anewc2

Chi-square goodness of fit test example with primes

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unums: better than floats

Posted on 2016 April 27 by anewc2

http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=2913029

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Non-uniform Random Variate Generation

Posted on 2015 December 14 by anewc2

http://luc.devroye.org/rnbookindex.html

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Bayesian statistics

Posted on 2015 November 3 by anewc2

http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/11/learning-to-love-bayesian-statistics.html?m=1

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Happy (day after) 200th birthday, George Boole

Posted on 2015 November 3 by anewc2

The namesake of the Boolean data type. He took his profession as a schoolteacher seriously, and developed all sorts of surprisingly modern theories about the importance of understanding and discovery (as opposed to rote memorization), and the value of tangible … Continue reading →

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George E P Box 1919-2013

Posted on 2013 April 13 by anewc2

“All mod­els are wrong but some are use­ful” via Hyndsight – George E P Box 1919-2013.

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