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TweetHey Zach:   My name is Walter and I work with the Naval Research Lab in Monterey, CA. We’re receiving a new Cray system in the near future and held a vote for the two login node names and the … Continue reading →

TweetLibraries have a problem. An awesome problem. In the abstract, the purpose of a library is to collect and make information available. The information may be entertaining or practical or neither or both, but in general the role of the … Continue reading →

TweetScrew portraits! Also, wide images don’t work well with this blog format, so the below is a link to click.  

Tweet4.4: Indeterminate Forms and L’Hospital’s Rule L’Hospital’s rule was actually devised by Johann Bernoulli. However, because of an agreed they had at the time, the theorem was rule was named for L’Hospital. Happily Bernoulli has a twofold revenge, in that … Continue reading →

TweetI got a reader who said he/she had been a skeptic of homeopathy, but was convinced by this article that it worked. I normally don’t respond to stuff like this, but this person seemed to be on the fence, so … Continue reading →

TweetYeehaw! We’re one section away from getting into the nitty gritty. But, this last section of chapter 2 is very important. This is where you stop thinking of the derivative as a trick and start thinking of it as a … Continue reading →

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TweetWooh! We are so very close to having enough math under our belts to return to physics, where it is MUCH easier for me to make penis jokes. The Velocity Problem Imagine I’m driving away from your sister’s apartment. My … Continue reading →