Three Ways to Help
Three ways that you, a more experienced practitioner, can help others around you, with varying experience, to get more done.
Posts
Happy Pi Day
Why 22/7 is such a good approximation to pi – a quick glimpse at continued fractions
A- is a long way from B+
An observation about a particular failure mode which leads engineering projects to occupy isolated local maxima.
The meaning of median
A description of an abstraction which illustrates a connection between the mean and the median.
A Graduation Address on Learning, Making, and Teaching
The text of an occasional address I had the opportunity to deliver to a group of graduating students at the University of Sydney, 17th May 2024, 9:30am
The Fashion Theory of Code
An exploration of an analogy between code and fashion, presenting the idea that thinking about code in context is like thinking about fashion in context.
What is zero to the power of zero?
A school level maths discussion of the mathematical background needed to give a precise meaning to “zero to the power of zero”.