- Ideas are Nothing – Execution is Everything – "How often have you been approached by somebody who has a great idea for an iPhone app, and they will tell you the idea if you just do the programming, and then you will both share in the profits? As an aside, I wonder if this happens to book authors as well."
- ‘Fractal’ mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies aged 85 – Ah, I remember all that time playing with Fractint on my 386SX… And I still don't really understand the maths.
Tag Archives: maths
My delicious.com bookmarks for September 10th through September 16th
- Pope adviser calls UK a Third World Country, deploys racism, then says atheists are aggressive – "The Vatican said the cardinal had not intended 'any kind of slight', and was referring to the UK's multicultural society." Well that's okay, then. (Not.)
- Why parents can’t do maths today – Article on how they teach arithmetic in British schools. I think the interesting thing is that approaches to both long division and multiplication are now more heuristics than algorithms.
My delicious.com bookmarks for June 23rd through July 20th
- MacPaint and QuickDraw source code – This is awesome: the original source code to two of the most important pieces of software from the 1980's.
- If I have two children, and one is a boy, what are the odds that – Where common sense makes no sense. Sometimes. Probably.
- June 23, 1912: Computer Pioneer Alan Turing Born – "He’s also a genuinely interesting figure, albeit a tragic one. An eccentric who liked to bicycle while wearing a gas mask and who occasionally wore pajama tops underneath suit jackets, he was also a prodigious and eclectic genius."