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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Efficiently Directing the Work

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The good Colonel knew it in 1918, no man can efficiently direct work about which he knows nothing --Col Thurman H. Bane and we can redisc...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty

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New report from the National Academies Press on decision making under uncertainty. Description: The U.S. Environmental Protection...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

No Interactions? OFAT is still a Bad Idea

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PDF version Suppose you are trying to estimate the effect that 6 factors have on a response, and you know that none of the factors influenc...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Octet Truss Memory, Time and Dollar Costs

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Cost for 3D Octet Truss Arrays i j k time (s) stl (bytes) WSF ($) 1 1 1 1 1.47 73384 2 2 2 2 28.74 435384 2.61 ...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Small Multiple Scatter Plots with Marginal Densities

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An example data visualization in R inspired by Tufte's example on pp118-121 of Beautiful Evidence ; source below the fold.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

HIFiRE-5 Flight Test Preliminary Results and Video

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Check out the preliminary results on AIAA's ARC site: HIFiRE-5 Flight Test Preliminary Results
Monday, January 14, 2013

Maxima Related Lisp Tutorials

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In this previous post I mentioned that I learn a lot from the Maxima mailing list. There was a recent question (somewhat frequently asked...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Nuclear Rockets Petition

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As reported by NBC there is a petition on WhiteHouse.gov to rapidly develop and deploy a nuclear thermal rocket for both manned & un-m...
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Friday, January 4, 2013

Scientific Computing Going Mobile/Embedded

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I follow both the Octave and Maxima user mailing lists (I learn more from the Maxima list, but the Octave one still throws up a gem every ...