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James Howard

A Mathematician, a Different Kind of Mathematician, and a Statistician

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    Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis is Out Now!

    June 13, 2017 8:48 AM James Howard

    My new book Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis with R came out today from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. This book is a long-standing project of

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  • The Bumblebees are Back, and They’re Bad!

    May 11, 2017 8:51 PM James Howard

    The virtual bumblebees are now available for download under an MIT license. The bees were kinda/sorta always available, but I have clarified the licensing. To

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  • Slides from NerdNite Baltimore 8

    April 22, 2017 8:35 PM James Howard

    I’ve posted the slides from my talk at NerdNite. Unfortunately, there’s no video or audio.

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  • Watch my talk at the 2016 Mars Society Convention

    October 30, 2016 10:05 PM James Howard

    I haven’t been posting much lately, because I have been super busy with just about everything. But, the Mars Society has posted videos from the

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  • Learn How to Manage a Basement Flood

    September 23, 2016 9:07 PM James Howard

    Geoff Williams writes in the U.S. News and World Report about how to manage a basement flood and in this article, I talk about insurance,

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The Fish Bowl

June 26, 2017 6:50 AM James Howard

Purveyors of various Malthusian models like to compare the Earth and its

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Power Generation and Decentralization

June 21, 2017 7:37 AM James Howard

Renewable energy gets more interesting if we can push those solar, wind,

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Testimony on the Long Reach Redevelopment

June 20, 2017 7:06 AM James Howard

Last night, I testified in favor of CR98-2017 and CR99-2017. These resolutions

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Geothermal Power in the United States

June 19, 2017 7:34 AM James Howard

Iceland is a really cool place that uses a lot of geothermal

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Model Thinking When All Models are Wrong

June 15, 2017 7:27 AM James Howard

In the late 1970s, statistician George Box created the famous wisdom, “All

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The Long Reach Redevelopment and Master Plan

June 5, 2017 6:50 AM James Howard

The legislation supporting the redevelopment of the Long Reach Village Center has

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