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The Atomic Age That Wasn’t
“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history,...
View ArticleRegular Expressions for Numbers in BASH
Introduction This is a short post on how to recognize numbers such as simple integers, real numbers and special codes such as zip codes and credit card numbers and also extract these number from...
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Data Science Boot Camps
Business Insider recently ran an article “Here’s what you should know about those 99% job placement rates at ‘coding bootcamps’— some of which boast $100,000 exit salaries” warning readers to be...
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Was Richard Feynman a Great Teacher?
Bill Gates recently published a blog post The Best Teacher I Never Had with an attached video extolling the virtues of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize winning physicist and Caltech professor, as a...
View ArticleMath Blog Survey
Believe it or not, five years have passed since our last survey. I think it’s time to learn a bit more about our current audience, as well as receiving much needed feedback from the community. The...
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Math Blog’s Survey Results
Last week I solicited your feedback via a quick survey. Today I’m sharing the aggregated, non-identifiable information with you. It should give us a better picture of this community. (Note: I’m...
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Summing It Up Giveaway Winner
Congratulations to Trevor H. of Australia, for winning our first Math Blog giveaway. 400 entries were received; not a bad turnout at all, if I may say so myself. I’m already looking forward to the next...
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A fire destroyed everything I own. Math Blog will be on a hiatus.
I regret to inform you that Math Blog will be on hold for a while due to tragic personal circumstances. On the evening of Thursday, October 13, 2016, an 18 year old girl having a domestic dispute with...
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Data Science Boot Camps II
NOTE: I will be posting to and administering the Math Blog while Antonio and his family recover from the fire at his home. Inc. recently ran an article: The Strange and Sudden Disappearance of a Coding...
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Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Cathy O’Neil Crown New York 2016 Book Web Site: https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com The Author’s Blog:...
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Algebra, Asimov, and Missing Steps
When I was young, I could not get algebra. In particular, I would encounter magical operations like this: followed by: followed by (AHA!): Obviously, x was three! Only it wasn’t obvious to me. Somehow...
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Big Data Flubs Donald Versus Hillary
Donald Trump’s unexpected upset victory over Hillary Clinton raises troubling questions about the use of mathematical models and “Big Data” in politics. With the possible exception of the USC...
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Pre-Election Polls That Were Wrong
Following up on my last post Big Data Flubs Donald Versus Hillary, here are some famous cases where pre-election polls were wrong. The Literary Digest Predicts Landon Will Defeat Roosevelt in 1936 In...
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Did Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Elect Donald Trump?
Dozens of articles are trying to blame the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on Facebook’s news feed algorithm, and especially its supposed propensity for factually untrue news...
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Separating the Math and the Mathematician
I recently gave a talk Ronald Fisher and Maximum Likelihood Estimation on the pioneering statistician Ronald Fisher and his development of the method of maximum likelihood estimation, one of his...
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Should You Get Started in Data Science?
I recently received an inquiry on how to get started in the currently hot field of data science. Perhaps a better question is: should you get started in data science? What is data science? Data science...
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Invasion of the Physicists
Wired recently published an article with the sensational title “Move Over, Coders — Physicists Will Soon Rule Silicon Valley” primarily concerned with physicists or former physicists working in deep...
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Book Review: Peak — Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Peak — Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 216 307 pages My Rating: 4/5 How does one become an expert mathematician? How does...
View ArticleThe Nightmare of Algorithm Interviews
A recent widespread custom in the high technology industry is the “coding interview” where applicants typically stand in front of a white board for three or more hours answering questions about data...
View ArticleWorking as a Forensic Accountant: Valuable Core Characteristics
Ever since I was young, I knew that I would eventually end up perusing a career working with numbers. I have always found Math and numbers to be exciting and interesting. I always enjoyed the fact that...
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