One of the great things about maths is how one so often comes up against obstacles requiring taking a different route. And if pupils don't learn this early on then they are doomed to suffering from fear of maths later on. A teacher can demonstrate this by getting things wrong, often and in public!!...

One thing I have learned in lecturing is never to BS. Just say you don't know but come back with an answer.  Another approach is to take a scoped down case and try to solve it on the fly. And never say "let's talk about after the coffee break". Many speakers are scared of interacting with ...

One things I have learned in lecturing is never to BS. Just say you don't know but come back with an answer. 

Whether "deep learning" is being used in business or sought by employers is an empirical question.  An analysis of resumes on LinkedIn and job postings in various internet sites would provide an answer. As for the efficiency argument, he's technically right but realistically wrong on two ...

What do people think of this? (NB I am just the messenger, so you know the rules of engagement ;) ). Speaking as someone who has done machine learning and data science for businesses for almost 10 years now: no, absolutely not. In fact, you should forget that deep learning exists. Most of what you a...

More enthusiastic crowds welcome Trump

Concluding: . The West and Quantlib implementations of the Genz algorithms give the same accuracy up to machine precision. We used the finite difference method to check them just to ensure that they do not give the same incorrect value for certain values of the parameters. We generated a,b,rho rando...

Tautochrone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautochrone_curve

Half-pipe

http://www.iitgn.ac.in/mcm/cd/mcm-2011/ ... /11199.pdf

yellow/green is powerful

What is the shape of a bull's hide? "The Kingdom you see is Carthage, the Tyrians, the town of Agenor; But the country around is Libya, no folk to meet in war. Dido, who left the city of Tyre to escape her brother, Rules here--a long and labyrinthine tale of wrong Is hers, but I will touch on i...

Maybe for that annual Dutch quiz 2017?

Mrs. Cuchulainn got the first one right (without any maths!)

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/0 ... cal-rally/

Anyone there last night? There were about 10K Americans.

Any there?

Summer in Siam