Various Consequences

OpenMDAO is "an open-source MDAO framework written in Python." It is an easy install (though not packaged for Fedora yet as fa...

From Travis Oliphant by way of the Planet Scipy feed: Hello all, There is a lot happening in my life right now and I am spread quite thin...

Rough Hex Output & Smooth Surface Reconstruction for Dogleg This post describes a set of open source tools for simple topology optimi...

About 6 months ago Dan Hughes sent me a link to an interesting paper on "chaotic" behavior in the trajectory of iterates in a num...

There was a pretty cool amateur rocket shot recently that was an attempt to win the Carmack micro-prize . The rocket is called Qu8k, design...

I thought the intermittent splashing of the cooling water/steam in the close-up portion of this J2-X engine test video looked interesting. ...

This is an extension to the FFT-based oil extraction model (see the Mobjectivist blog for more more details ). The basic approach remains...

This post is about visualizing confidence intervals. Matplotlib has some really neat capabilities that are useful in that regard, but befor...

I was putting together a little data post-processing tutorial for some guys in my lab, and it turned into a tour de force for that scientifi...