http://lowlymath.net The Disparate Notions of the Lowly Mathematician Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You can see all the various sites I've bookmarked about Gradschool @: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/jfredett/gradschool   It's an RSS feed, but also the only sane url-link to the specific tag. It's just my del.icio.us space under the tag "gradschool" http://lowlymath.net/2008/grad-school-tags/ So, I know my posts are quite sparse to begin with, and sporadic at that. But, sadly, I'm here to tell you, my faithful and equally sporadic readers, that problem will be getting worse. Heres my situation, I transferred last year from one school (WPI) to another, cheaper school (WSC)[1]. In ... http://lowlymath.net/2008/down-the-graduate-school-rabbit-hole/ I just watched this show, on THC. I actually liked it, the title of the show was "Evolve" and it has to be the first show I've seen on THC that didn't bugger up the science much at all. It was unabashedly pro-evolution, one of the biologists on the show ... http://lowlymath.net/2008/evolve-the-history-channel-may-have-finally-done-something-right/ In High schools across the country, kids learn algebra. I know quite a few parents who have some big problems with algebra. For some, it's just because it's been a while since they've needed to use it, for others, it's always been a hard thing, but it doesn't have to ... http://lowlymath.net/2008/basic-math-algebra-101/ So- Apparently I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to scheme-style quoting in haskell. Augustss Says you can't do it because of- well, some reason beyond my comprehension. He's a smart guy, so I'm inclined to believe him. However, I still think that what I proved ... http://lowlymath.net/2008/quoting-in-haskell-redux/ > module Quotable where This is a nice little code dump I was trying to have posted yesterday, I've finally got most of the formatting bugs worked out. I wasn't thinking I was going to post this till I got about 2/3rd the way through it, so it's pretty rough. Think ... http://lowlymath.net/2008/quotable-haskell/ So- I was going to treat you all with a nice brain-dump style posting about Scheme-style Quoting in Haskell. But Wordpress is being bitchy, so it's going to take a while, disregard any spam in your RSS feeds, it's unintentional, I promise.   Sorry. http://lowlymath.net/2008/thar-be-gremlins/ On reddit today, there was a comment about a radio personality who argued with a Mathematician about how percentages work, specifically about how percentages are combined. I replied with a short explaination of how 35% + 15% = 55.25% and not latex 50%. Shortly thereafter, there were half-a-dozen comments, ranging ... http://lowlymath.net/2008/basic-math-how-to-use-numbers-any-day/ Welcome to the new site, posting will soon restart after the admittedly long hiatus. To update the crowd, I've recently been working with Android, the Google Phone platform, specifically working on a simplified interface for interphone communication via the GTalk interface. I've also been fiddling with GPS stuff. I'll be posting ... http://lowlymath.net/2008/new-digs/ Turns out the import of posts from the blogger account didn't go all too smoothly, alot of the formatting was lost in the translation. If you'd like me to fix up any particular post, I'll be sure to get to it, but there are quite a few, so unless I'm ... http://lowlymath.net/2007/note-on-formatting/