What kind of screw is this?

Monday, September 4, 2023

Learning FFmpeg

Thursday, March 16, 2023

The Interface Series and _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9

Saturday, August 6, 2022

Who is Keyser Söze Soren Narnia?

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Old Time Radio Links

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Online tutorials and reading in mathematics

Sunday, December 13, 2020

2020.09.29

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Want to Learn How the Pentagon Works? Then Play This Board Game. by Michael Peck, in Foreign Policy Magazine …

Entertaining Academics

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

An increasing number of academics engage non-specialists through popular books, podcasts, and social media. I find the linguist John McWhorter and the statistician David Spiegelhalter (former Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge) the most entertaining. During the entertainment, I learn a lot. …

How to start a Python project?

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

I claim that in the world of programming languages, learning to use a language’s affiliated software tools is harder than learning the language itself. For example, the C programmer really should learn to use gcc (or another compiler), GNU make, gdb, valgrind, and more. There are analogous but different needs for Python programmers. …

Legitimately free statistics books

Thursday, July 23, 2020

I have tried to avoid including any books that are available without permission from the authors or publishers. …