Swizec's articles in the "math" category
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Why I don't have a 5 year plan
January 31st, 2014
Week 1: Turing's On computable numbers
October 20th, 2013
Flotr2 - my favorite javascript graph library
June 1st, 2012
Lychrel numbers
January 27th, 2012
Minimum substring cover problem
January 11th, 2012
Collatz, Haskell and Memoization
January 9th, 2012
Sabbatical week day 2: I fail at Octave
December 28th, 2011
Can I please take all my classes online?
December 8th, 2011
First steps with Octave and machine learning
November 4th, 2011
Our intuitive understanding of distance fails us
September 6th, 2011
I learned two things today 3.9.
September 3rd, 2011
Implementing a weighed random choice in Clojure
May 26th, 2011
A cool JavaScript property you never noticed
A few years ago I was playing around with JavaScript trying to find the cleanest way to implement callbacks in functions. Primarily I wanted a readable way to make certain the last argument passed is a callback, withut having to rely on knowing how many arguments there are and so on. Instead I stumbled upon a pretty cool feature of how javascript handles function arguments.
April 16th, 2011
Checking for primes? Dumber algorithm is faster algorithm
March 21st, 2011
Project euler is a fun way to become a better geek
March 8th, 2011
The bliss and curse of mindsets
March 15th, 2010
Maths is purdiful
February 4th, 2010
Linear algebra assistants are the RIAA
July 7th, 2009
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