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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
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: Debunking Creationism
I was planning on ignoring this one, but tons of readers have been writing to me about the latest inanity spouting from the keyboard of Discovery Institute's flunky, Denise O'Leary. Here's what she had to say: Even though I...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:54 PM • 80 Comments •
Category: Numbers
In my Dembski rant, I used a metaphor involving the undescribable numbers. An interesting confusion came up in the comments about just what that meant. Instead of answering it with a comment, I decided that it justified a post...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:41 AM • 94 Comments •
Category: Basics
After my post the other day about rounding errors, I got a ton of requests to explain the idea of significant figures. That's actually a very interesting topic. The idea of significant figures is that when you're doing experimental...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:55 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Basics
Another alert reader sent me a link to a YouTube video which is moderately interesting. The video itself is really a deliberate joke, but it does demonstrate a worthwile point. It's about rounding....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:32 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which were...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:53 AM • 25 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:05 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:20 AM • 35 Comments •
Category: Numbers
. I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:46 AM • 19 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:49 AM • 31 Comments •
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