Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
Math
Apparently I'm half-Bayesian
Steve Hsu links to a paper by Judea Pearl on Bayesian statistics and causality.
Judea Pearl: I turned Bayesian in 1971, as soon as I began reading Savage’s monograph The Foundations of Statistical Inference [Savage, 1962]. The arguments were unassailable: (i) It is plain silly to ignore what we
Tom Lehrer sings about non-Euclidian geometry
More videos for the curious.
h/t @TopologyFact
Mathematics and Computer Science ebooks
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h/t John D Cook
Steve Hsu: Information Processing
Steve Hsu is a physics professor at the University of Oregon. I stumbled across some fun things on his blog. Among my favorites:
* Learning how to fight [Our interests converge already]
* Thinking in terms of probability distributions [the most important skill in science and engineering, and life]
* Psychometrics works [I&
Physicists' notoriously casual attitude toward mathematics
Alexander Pruss, a philosopher at Baylor, comments on physicists' notoriously casual attitude towards mathematics and notation. This is right on. Like the first commenter, in school I remember the snide remarks the math and physics profs would direct at each other on this subject. As a physicist at heart,
Fermi Problems
Geoff Canyon has a post about Google's tricky interview questions. Microsoft is also known for asking these kind of questions during interviews, and you can run into them anywhere in the technical world. Also known as Fermi problems or back-of-the-envelope calculations, I ran into these a lot during