Abstract Heresies

Robert W. Baldwin 1957 - 2007

So I tried changing the blog settings to not convert line breaks and now all the paragraphs run together. I tried putting in extra blank li...

I mentioned in an earlier post that I tried using a cumulative probability graph without much success. It turns out that this sort of gra...

A friend was conducting an interview the other day and asked the applicant to write a program that traversed a tree in depth-first order. T...

In analyzing my data I wanted to classify it with a naive Bayesian classifier. I wasn't sure I had the math right, so I wrote a tiny abs...

The histograms I generated helped people understand what the sample plots were showing, but they didn't really help me understand what w...

The first few graphs I made just by futzing around with Emacs and gnuplot. When I had to more processing by smoothing histograms and such I...