Posted in Mathematics on July 25th, 2007 3 Comments »
I have made a few adjustments to my “Reading List” page (see tab above).
ADDED to future reads:
Fiction
* Next by Michael Crichton
* Fallen Dragon by Peter Hamilton
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Non-Fiction
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
* - I already own the books with the asterisk.
I haven’t been reading as much for leisure this year. Most of my [...]
Posted in Mathematics on July 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
(cross posted on Zone Defense)
I just finished reading the book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. It had been recommended to me by a couple of different folks but the most recent recommendation came from listening to the TWIT podcast where Leo Laporte recommended it as an Audio Book. The TWIT podcast, in fact [...]
Posted in Mathematics on July 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I just stumbled across a little application that looks like it will come in handy, both for just screen managements on my widescreen laptop and for designing webpages for different sized screens.
Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web [...]
Posted in Mathematics on July 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
Symmetries are nice. I like seeing interesting patterns arrive even if they are not natural features of mathematics, but contrivances of our chosen numerical notation.
Here’s a good example. I wouldn’t call it beauty in mathematics as much as a beauty of numbers, or even elegant numerical relationships:
The Beauty of Mathematics
1 x 8 + [...]
Posted in Bioinformatics on July 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I am being introduced to a side of research that is making me more and more uncomfortable. I know it’s probably hard to believe but I’ve made it all the way through a Ph.D. program and didn’t see a lick of the hoarding of information, especially like I see it now in the field [...]