More than nine years after my Epic Munchkin Win, today I made an epic Munchkin save. My Level 9 opponent kicked open the door and found a Level 2 Monster Under the Bed, which was +2 against him for being a Dwarf, for a total of 4. Fighting at Level 25, my opponent was winning …
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Hey, everybody! Please don’t leave these lying around in the street: And if you see them in the street, please pick them up. Thank you!
Bayesian statistics for undergrads
On June 13 at Olin College, Sanjoy Mahajan and I are offering a workshop for college instructors interested in teaching Bayesian statistics to undergrads. More information about this and the other workshops is here. Here’s the description: Bayesian Statistics for Undergraduates Bayesian statistics is a powerful approach to problems involving probability, to making and judging statistical …
Epic Munchkin Win!
So, there I was, on Level 8, equipped with my Boots of Butt-Kicking, Gentleman’s Club, Really Impressive Title, fetching Leather Armor, and a Rat on a Stick. Add it up, I’m fighting at Level 18. I kick in the door, and what do my wondering eyes behold? An Undead Horse! No problem, I say. I …
Concurrent Programming at Tufts
Yesterday I visited my friend and former colleague, Mark Sheldon, who is now teaching computer science at Tufts University, and I sat in on his concurrent programming class. Four teams presented their final projects, which I thought were excellent: the teams came up with interesting and diverse topics. And in the four presentations I saw, …
Think Python 2nd edition
The second edition of Think Python is in production now, and I just got the final draft of the cover: And that reminds me to answer a question I get a lot: do you get to choose the animal on the cover? The short answer is no. When I worked on my first O’Reilly book …
Think OS and eduScrum
I am teaching Software Systems this fall, which is an introduction to operating systems and C programming, with a splash of networks and databases. Last time I taught it, I started work on a new textbook, called Think OS, to address some of the problems I ran into: Most Operating Systems classes, and the books …
Think Python 2e
I am hard at work on the second edition of Think Python. The current draft is up now at thinkpython2.com New features include: Python 3! The first edition is mostly Python 2, with notes about some of the differences in Python 3. The second edition is the other way around: all Python 3, with a …
Report from SciPy 2015
Last week I was in Austin, TX for SciPy 2015. On Monday afternoon I sat in on a tutorial on multibody dynamics using SymPy, lead by Jason Moore and Jim Crist. I learned a ton. Tuesday I ran my tutorial, Computational Statistics I, then sat in on Chris Fonnnesbeck’s Computational Statistics II. Here’s an action shot from …
Bayesian Data Science workshops starting July 22
This summer I am offering a series of workshops on Bayesian statistics. The first workshop, based on the tutorial I taught at PyCon, will be offered July 22 and August 10. Then on August 18 I am rolling out a new workshop with more advanced material. This web page has more details about the workshop. …
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