Bio and Publications

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

LaTeX Mysteries and an algorithmicx thing I learned.

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I've been an on-and-off user of LaTeX since the very, very beginning. Back in the dark days when the one laser printer that could render...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Desktop Notifications and EPIC DESIGN FAIL

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I was asked to review code that -- well -- was evil. Not like "shabby" or "non-pythonic". Nothing so simple as that. We...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

No one wins at Code Golf vs. This is more noise than signal

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Looking at code. Came to a 20-line block of code that did exactly this. sorted(Path.cwd().glob("some_pattern[1-9]*.*"), reverse=Tr...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

How to Test a Random Number Generator

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Nowadays, we don't have the same compelling reasons to test a random number generator. The intervening decades have seen a lot of fruitf...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Old Days -- ca. 2000 -- Empirical Tests of Random Numbers (Python and Chi-Square Testing)

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See The Old Days -- ca. 1974 Random Numbers Before Python for some background. We'll get to Python after reminiscing about the olden da...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

The Old Days -- ca. 1974 -- Random Numbers before Python

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See " The Old Old Days -- ca. 1968 " for my first exposure to an actual computer. Nothing about Python there. But. It's what m...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

The Old Old Days -- ca. 1968

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As the olds do, I reminisce sometimes. Not often. Let me rewind the memory tapes a back to 1967 or '68. (What a dumb metaphor for folks ...