Category Archives: Rambling
Napkin Calculations
I ride the bus to work and ride my bike home. I really enjoy the 8 mile ride on the way home — expect when it’s freezing like yesterday! I haven’t decided whether or not it’s because (1) I’m cheap … Continue reading
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GPUs vs CPUs
I am going to start working on some benchmarks for GPUs vs CPUs. Hopefully I can write something about that soon; however, I don’t have anything at the moment. Nevertheless, I can give you a pretty sweet video illustrating the … Continue reading
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Apologies and Style Guides
I have to say that it’s pretty exciting to watch your blog go from a few hits over its lifetime to getting almost 200 in a single day. I am currently negotiating with Google over the purchase of this blog. … Continue reading
The Wave is Dead.
Wow, on the day that I decide to write another blog post, Google announces that they are discontinuing their development on Google Wave. Have a look at my last post. Back? Yeah, well I loved the Wave! There I said … Continue reading
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(a)typical
Give a soapbox (blog) to a nonparametric statistician and you’re going to get this post or something very similar. Specifically, the latest edition of The Log Cabin concerns two summary statistics: the mean (average) and the median. Anybody who has … Continue reading
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What’s in a name?
So why the name “The Log Cabin”? Well, the reason is two-fold. (1) I am constantly reminded about the general public’s lack-of-knowledge of and paranoia surrounding logs, or more specifically, logarithms. For example, I’ve had the following exchange on more … Continue reading
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