Computations Book – stacyprowell.com

Haunted by Errors

That which does not kill you may still haunt you forever

Just a two or three years ago (no need to check) I was in college taking computer science courses, and I encountered CS 375 (I think). This was the undergraduate computational mathematics course, and it was taught by a doctoral student.

A large part of the class was about how to calculate (or bound) the errors in computations. It involved things like the condition number of matrices, and I recall thinking the material was so boring!!! In fact, I had a really hard time getting into the class… and got the only bad grade I ever got in a computer science course (but I did pass).

Too Many Projects

Work expands to fill the lack of personal discipline

As I have reduced the number of projects I am working on in my day job (down from ten to just… less than ten) I have compensated by raising the number of projects I am working on at home. These range from cleaning up the flowerbeds to updating and revising the Markov chain computations book. The term rewriter has, again, moved to the back of the queue.