cool tools
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Brainfeast: Reading and Speaking
Two knock-it-outta-the-park posts on the web this week. Stuff to make you smarter and maybe richer: Effortless cool is a detailed process. -Ben Sherman Where was all this stuff when I was in college? high school? Update I’m a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things,” she [Taylor Swift] said last year in her Read more
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Oh, and in my spare time, I invented TeX
Writing in Quanta, Susan D’Agostino has a fascinating interview with the computing-est of all computer scientists, Donald Knuth. Who continues his Everest-like trek up his monumental Art of Computer Programming. This (intrinsically) never-to-be-completed opus to the mathematics and techniques of algorithms was, for many of us, the first introduction to formal analysis of algorithms and Read more
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Pick a Name at Random
Found a cool new tool useful in simulating data sets: the Random Name Generator. What a great way to fake up some data! I’ve been using it in a course that includes survey sampling. Read more
The Random Texan 