Mar 23, 2018
Errata for Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis
Well, CMNA has been out for nine months and I got my first notice of mistakes in the text. There are three, related mistakes in the section on evaluating formulae and were…
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Mar 21, 2018
Intermediate Algebra, Spring 2018
Well, I may be running a campaign for delegate right now, but I still am teaching mathematics, because that's just what I do. I am teaching an intermediate algebra class this term.…
Mar 9, 2018
Summary of Expected Climate Change Effects on Howard County
Howard County is largely insulated from the most dramatic effect of global climate change, sea level rise. Howard County has no coastal border and is sufficiently inland and above sea level that…
Mar 7, 2018
Disruptive Event Prediction
Our paper, "Crystal Cube: Multidisciplinary Approach to Disruptive Events Prediction," is going to be presented at the 9th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2018) and the Affiliated Conferences,…
Mar 2, 2018
Values and Trends in Cybersecurity
Working with Natalie Scala at Towson, Paul Goethals at West Point, and I, Towson student Lorraine Black reviewed survey data from small law firms and IT professionals to investigate values and attitudes…
Feb 28, 2018
Full-Spectrum Technology for Climate Change
I was in a meeting yesterday with Christina Pikas and several others. I and the others all had our laptops out. Christina had a notebook and pen. I said, something about not…
Feb 19, 2018
Data Science Overhype
I've been concerned for some time that we are deep in an overhype cycle with data science. It keeps appearing on hottest job lists and everyone seems to think data science can…
Feb 16, 2018
Cyanobacteria on the Early Earth
Now that we have established that life is nearly likely to arise given the right circumstances, we want to know what kinds of microorganisms would have survived the early Earth. The early…
Feb 14, 2018
Phonics in JOSS, version 1.0.0 released
Today, I received news that phonics and its associated metapaper were published in the Journal of Open Source Software ( JOSS ). At the culmination of nearly three years of off-and-on and…
Feb 14, 2018
Life, the Universe, and Everything
The origin of life on Earth is a complicated question. The first thing we need to understand is that we don't really know the answer. But we have some ideas about how…
Feb 12, 2018
Flood Insurance Renewed...Again
So there's good news and bad news here. First, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been extended as part of Friday's budget deal: ::embed{href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2018/02/09/266882/budget-deal-extends-flood-insurance-program-again/"} The bad news here is that the…