December 2011
15 posts
Corporate Training Could Learn a Lot.
I’ve been to my share of corporate training which include the usual ice breakers and trust exercises and slides. Lots of slides. Powerpoint is abundant. One time I went to one of these trainings for 4 all consuming days.
Yesterday I went in with a bunch of other semi strangers of various levels of experience ranging from full on professionals to people, like myself, with no formal training...
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Breaking up programs
I often do small programming problems in Mathematica. The reason for this is I want to learn more about functional programing. Mathematica offers every kind of programming I’ve ever heard of. It also lets you mix them so it’s really very important to break things down first.
I happen to be working on #185 from projecteuler.net. It’s building a program that can play a game that...
Good Math/Bad Math 2nd law vs. Evolution →
This is a great explanation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics in the context of someone trying to argue against DNA being able to form via Evolution. Mark does an excellent job of dealing with the multiple holes in the assertion.
10 Tips for Writing Fast Mathematica Code →
You know I love me some Mathematica code. First two tips alone are great.
Intermission: Scary Snowman Frightens Innocent... →
Jillian Anthony, good.is
We’re a week into December and it’s time to laugh at people getting scared by a fake snowman. You might live in a city where it’s already begun to snow, and if Frosty’s evil twin suddenly jumped out at you with angry eyes, you’d be terrifi…
This is kinda wrong, yet still so funny.
