Category: flotsam

  • Late-April flotsam

    Late-April flotsam

    It has been month and a half since I compiled a list of statistical/programming internet flotsam and jetsam. That’s all folks.

  • Early-March flotsam

    Early-March flotsam

    It has been a strange last ten days since we unexpectedly entered grant writing mode. I was looking forward to work on this issue near the end of the year but a likely change on funding agency priorities requires applying in a few weeks; unfortunately, it means that all this is happening at the same […]

  • Mid-February flotsam

    Mid-February flotsam

    This coming Monday we start the first semester in Canterbury (and in New Zealand for that matter). We are all looking forward to an earthquake-free year; more realistically, I’d be happy with low magnitude aftershocks.

  • Early-February flotsam

    Mike Croucher at Walking Randomly points out an interesting difference in operator precedence for several mathematical packages to evaluate a simple operation 2^3^4. It is pretty much a divide between Matlab and Excel (does the later qualify as mathematical software?) on one side with result 4096 (or (2^3)^4) and Mathematica, R and Python on the […]

  • Mid-January flotsam: teaching edition

    Mid-January flotsam: teaching edition

    I was thinking about new material that I will use for teaching this coming semester (starting the third week of February) and suddenly compiled the following list of links: