Machine Learning, math and other cool tricks
Some mathematical topics can be useful in various real life cases Expected value is one of these that can inform mathematical thinking in many practical ways. The basic formula: Expected value = sum( Xi * Pi ) Basics of Expected Value calculation Suppose one wagers $1 on a game where we will lose the dollar Continue reading "Expected Value Estimations In Finance, in Business, and in Health" The…
If you ve used Matomo (formerly Piwik) for user tracking you may know that it s quite easy to add in the Matomo tracking code to pages or base blade.php templates but the new AI Insights tab is empty?? And furthermore there is no instruction on how to add it to a Laravel based site which you Continue reading "Adding Matomo AI Insights from Laravel" The post Adding Matomo AI Insights from Laravel…
This week the previous Outlook Lite was discontinued, as you may have seen with the warnings in app for weeks now. The preferred Outlook app they send you to not only has 6 different tracking/advert libraries in it, the download is over 100MB! There are operating systems that are smaller than that. No thanks . Thankfully Continue reading "Outlook Lite is gone but the web version lives on?" The…
SOME math contest in an annual celebration of math and math teaching through building content to share online. Previous Winners Top video items Other top submissions. New Rules AI is permitted for brainstorming or getting ideas mapped out, but not in building a submission to submit Read here for the official rules. I like the Continue reading "It s time! Summer of Math Exposition Contest is up…
In recent months the AI tools have made it much easier to make realistic looking AI junk. Since this has populated on Youtube and many other platforms it s important to not be swayed by false programming Checklist of common identifiers Here is one example of almost all of these in one channel: Nothing new new Continue reading "PSA Warning on AI generated video/news" The post PSA Warning on AI…
If you have been following some of the news about RAM/chip shortage, and considering a new laptop, you may have been watching the news from Framework, and also the news from Purism.. FrameWork new, but yet, not new? The new FrameWork pro is announced with a few improvements, and swappability, upgradability with the previous Continue reading "FrameWORK s new laptop and a tale of two preorders" The…
If you ve been programming, or learning programming over the past year or so, you should have seen many of the coding assistants MS Copilot, Claude, Chatgpt and similar. While these have been very handy in looking up how to build a thing and even building the thing (sometimes successfully!) There are a lot of Continue reading "A Case Against the AI-IDE" The post A Case Against the AI-IDE appeared…
March 14th is Pi day a national holiday in celebration of mathematics. For anyone who has done anything with morse code or ham radio, this game combines them with Pi digits for a challenging game: Morse Code + Numbers Basics As you may know, 10 digits could be represented in binary with a 8 s, Continue reading "Happy Pi Day! Try the new Pi+Morse Code Game." The post Happy Pi Day! Try the new…
If you re like me you may have preferred the old open-source Silence app, over the default Android s text messages for many years It had an optional encrypt option that sometimes worked, it had its own backup/restore to restore to a new phone, but unfortunately that is incompatible with others and now has an incompatibility warning Continue reading "Importing old Silence Texts/SMS to…
As you may have heard in the news today, many thousands of cell phone users did not have service today, on Verizon or phones trying to connect to a Verizon number. A common issue with cell phones is that they require access to the local cell tower, a network service that may or may not Continue reading "Verizon Outage Highlights need for Amateur Radio, Backup Radios" The post Verizon Outage…