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Mar 30, 2020

A Brief Discourse on the Jackknife Method

I often use bootstrapping when I need to get an estimate of some parameter, but that is because I have access to sufficient computational resources to to just do run my analysis…

Mar 27, 2020

Confucianism in the Time of Coronavirus

One of the most well-known aspects of Confucian thought is the importance of the social order. Confucius thought it was important that everyone know their place in society. This idea is summarized…

Mar 22, 2020

China and Founding Myth

The founding myth of China revolves around the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Unlike later formal dynasties, even if prehistoric like the Xia Dynasty or Shang Dynasty. This period, before the Xia…

Mar 14, 2020

Why Social Distancing Works

Everyone is talking about social distancing, but nobody seems to understand why it works. This is what I wrote for someone on Facebook. So with any disease, there's a bunch of metrics…

Mar 2, 2020

Proposed Charter Review Recommendations

Below is the synopsis of the proposed recommendations from the Charter Review Commission. Please come by our hearing tomorrow night to discuss these with us. ::document{src="/assets/docs/One-Paragraph-Summaries.pdf" label="Open the PDF document" embed="true"}

Feb 18, 2020

Shotgun Pi

Monte Carlo is a beautiful process that can be used to address many, many problems. One of my favorites is that it can be used to estimate the value of [latex]\pi[/latex]. First…

Feb 11, 2020

Charter Review Commission Public Hearing

The Howard County Charter Review Commission has spent about a year now reviewing the County Charter. We've held a number of public hearings. And we are currently drafting a set of preliminary…

Feb 8, 2020

Matrices in the Machine

No matter what we consider the internal representation, the data will be stored linearly in memory. If we are using a programming language like C, we would use something like this to…

Feb 5, 2020

Zeroes Are Hard to Find

When we are looking at two-dimensional optimization algorithms, there are a variety of options. The first is the bisection method. I like the bisection method, because it makes a delightful use of…