Abstract Heresies

I found a polynomial approximation to Erf : (define (polynomial-erf z) ;; Numerical Recipies 6.2 ;; fractional error < 1.2e-7 (let*...

How did I end up back at continued fractions? I was doing more thinking about my polling problem, and I wanted to plot some cumulative log-...

Write a program that finds the smallest element in a list. Write a program that, given a predicate, finds an extremum from a list. That is...

Blogger is kind enough to report a few statistics about people who visit this blog. One of the stats is “Search Keywords”, which I interpre...

I have collected some empirical data concerning the polling problem . If we sort the successful polls by time and plot the ordinal fraction...

In the previous post I described a puzzle. I based the puzzle on a real-world problem: I'm invoking a service with an RPC and the def...

Imagine you have a black box that can play a betting game. On the top of the box is a button, two LEDs (red and green), and a slot in which...