Statistical Significance of Doom (part 2)
False positives are somewhat scarier than false negatives. What if my research claims a drug cures cancer, giving thousands of sufferers hope, but it turns out ...
Category: Math
Textbooks suck
Today I was looking through my introductory calculus textbook* for no particular reason. Well, I say introductory, but I think that’s a particularly bad c...
Project Euler
A long long time ago I discovered Project Euler, a competition of sorts where the goal is to solve numerous mathematical puzzles with the aid of a computer. I o...