If you have not listened to the TED talk by Conrad Wolfram, I highly recommend you do. If you have any interest in math education, the odds are great that his talk is far more important than anything else you could possibly doing in the next 20 minutes. If you think the name sounds familiar,…
Do yourself a favor and read this terrific post, The 10 Biggest Mistakes I Made as a Start-up Founder. Given the miasma of bad start-up advice out there, this post is a breath of fresh air in a pollution of stupid. The Julia Group is doing well, and our latest venture, 7 Generation Games, which…
Spirit Lake: The Game is mostly an adventure game that teaches math. However, it has lots of Easter eggs, side quests and spin-offs added because hey, these are kids and sometimes they like to do something different and some of them have the attention span of an ant. Our idea is to make the game…
Intimidated by your latest programming task? Code taking longer than you think it should? Here’s a tip – When I was in college, flow charts were what the “cool kids in computer science” did – a phrase Darling Daughter Number One has informed me is oxymoronic. Seriously, when I took Fortran and Basic in school…
The Mplus website has free videos on using Mplus. The introductory course (not very introductory, really, because the the main topics are advanced factor analysis and structural equation modeling) has some pretty good resources. While it is not professional quality – just a video of a class – and much of it is beyond the…
I’m sitting by the pool at my sister’s house typing this on my iPad keyboard. I’m using the iPad for three reasons. My laptop, which I seldom run in boot camp, is now installing umpteen updates before it re-starts in Mac OS I’m supposed to not be typing so much because a combination of working…
When I started dating my late husband, I was a 26-year-old engineer and he was 44-year-old manager. In addition to forever losing any possibility of criticizing age differences for any boyfriends our daughters might bring home, it also means that he had a view on life that I often did not appreciate until years later….
Five more things I have learned in almost 55 years. Jealousy is bad for you. Scrupulous honesty about your motives will pay off. Much negative criticism stems from jealousy. Yes, employers ARE right to turn you down because you are over-qualified. Don’t take it personally but DO take it seriously. I am on a roll…
My saga on uploading and reading an older data set into SAS Web Editor 1. Use FTP to upload So, I did get my data uploaded to SAS Web Editor using ftp. Little hint here, if you are using Filezilla and having trouble connecting, check to make sure that Filezilla is not using sftp. Sometimes…
After dropping The Spoiled One off at the beach and setting a personal best for calls returned, I’m back on setting up data sets, assignments and more for the fall semester. So ….. I tried using the UPLOAD option from the menu in the SAS Web Editor and that was a sad failure. Next, I…