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http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/11/learning-to-love-bayesian-statistics.html?m=1
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: the comic book
I never used to like this poem. Now I do.
Happy (day after) 200th birthday, George Boole
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 examples in areas like mathematics (he surely would have been thrilled by what’s now possible with computers).