Computational science involves the use and analysis of mathematical models on high- performance computers to solve scientific and engineering problems in various disciplines. Such disciplines include nuclear engineering, reservoir modeling, environmental studies, seismology, aeronautics, biology, economics and medical imaging. Scientific computation constitutes a powerful “third arm” to theory and experimentation, and provides an innovative methodology to multidisciplinary problem solving.
ISC serves as a platform for conducting and coordinating multidisciplinary research under the four disciplines of scientific computation: data management, mathematical modeling, numerical solutions and visualization.
Author: grant
Harry’s Concours (C10) Motorcycle Maintenance Excel spreadsheet
Thanks to Harry Martin for putting together this calculator spreadsheet for Concours motorcycle maintenance.
Local copy mirrored here: Harry’s Concours (C10) Motorcycle Maintenance Excel spreadsheet
The Purpose of Interpersonal Relationships
The purpose of an interpersonal relationship is to actively and continually facilitate the personal growth and development of each other as individuals, to enjoy the process together as it unfolds, to maximize ease, and to have fun doing it.
Just Enough Ubuntu
Running Linux in a virtual isn’t a new idea, but from what Patrick said, it is fast and easy.
This might be a nice way to run a Racket web server locally on Linux.
Big Guile Release
Guile adds among other things hygienic-macros and Unicode support. Awesome!
(via guile)
Pending Backrest Cleanup
On my quest to rid my ride of rust I found the contaminants on the backrest mounts to be unacceptable. Take a look:
Sure it is not bad, but then again, it isn’t good, either.
I did replace all of the rusty bolts, however, the powdercoating seems to be eaten away and what is left remaining is a layer of rust.
Current investigating technical remediation for this that involve sandblasting and powdercoating.
Getting Started With R
- Read the posting guide, and sign up to the r-help mailing list
- Join sci.stat.consult (applied statistics and consulting) and sci.stat.math (mathematical stat and probability) for asking Statistics related questions
- Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition and An Introduction to R were mentioned in the posting guide
- Download R
CPR for Statistics
All statisticians should be proficient in C (for speed), perl (for data manipulation), and R (for interactive analyses and graphics). Think “CPR”.
Refreshing Eclipse
After installing a customized version of Eclipse I was horrified to find that automatic workspace refresh was disabled!
Not anymore.
Do Looks Matter?
After posting this it got me thinking about a conversation I had with one of my friends. He argued that how a bike looks doesn’t really matter since you are in fact riding it and you will never see it 90% of the time. I agree; it is true.
Keeping your bike fit and finished just shows that you value your investment :).