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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
Category: goodmath
As regular readers have no doubt noticed by now, posting on the blog has been slow lately. I've been trying to come back up to speed, but so far, that's been mainly in the form of bad math posts....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:02 AM • 94 Comments •
Category: goodmath
One of the things that's endlessly fascinating to me about math and science is the way that, no matter how much we know, we're constantly discovering more things that we don't know. Even in simple, fundamental areas, there's always...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:58 AM • 68 Comments •
Category: goodmath
As I've mentioned before, I've been spending a lot of time working on a book. Initially, I was working on a book made up of a collection of material from blog posts; along the way, I got diverted, and...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:27 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Basics
I've got a bunch of stuff queued up to be posted over the next couple of days. It's been the sort of week where I've gotten lots of interesting links from readers, but I haven't had time to finish...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 1:21 PM • 89 Comments •
Category: goodmath
As you've no doubt heard by now, there's been a new recommendation issues which proposes changing the breast-cancer screening protocol for women under 50, by eliminating mammograms for women who don't have significant risk factos. While Orac has done...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:51 PM • 35 Comments •
Category: Chaos
So I'm trying to ease back into the chaos theory posts. I thought that one good way of doing that was to take a look at one of the class chaos examples, which demonstrates just how simple a chaotic...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:20 AM • 21 Comments •
Category: goodmath
So, why math? The short version of the answer is remarkably simple: math provides a tool where you can, without ambiguity, prove that something is true or false. I'll get back to that - but first, I'm going to...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:11 PM • 98 Comments •
Category: goodmath
Today the 2008 Nobel Prize winners were announced for physics. It was given to three physicists who described something called symmetry breaking. Since most people don't know what symmetry breaking is, but people remember me writing about group theory...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:36 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: goodmath
Every year at ScienceBlogs, we do a charity drive for DonorsChoose.org. If you haven't heard of them, DonorsChoose is a charity that takes proposals from schoolteachers, and lets people pick specific proposals to donate money to. We run our...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:22 PM • •
Category: goodmath
I've been getting a ton of questions about an article from the Independent about a guy named Bertie Smalls. Bertie was a british thief who died quite recently, who was famous for testifying against his organized crime employers back...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:56 AM • 24 Comments •
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