Getting back to work
After a month of lock downs and self-isolation, many people are eager to get back to normal life. This is not just about the emotions,...
A word about the novel coronavirus...
So today my school and the Claremont Colleges in general decided to move courses online for the rest of the semester. This has led some...
Coding as a fundamental skill
I was reading a perspective that views the effort to teach kids coding as a "fetishization" of the subject. Naturally, I disagree....
Why Calculus?
Sometimes people ask me, why should students study Calculus? Today I saw this figure in a major magazine. Now, the law of diminishing...
Data science as a liberal art
I was asked recently to write a few paragraphs about how I feel data science as a liberal art, being as I am teaching Foundations of Data...
Tau: you spin me right round
Okay, so there still seems to be some confusion about Tau versus Pi. Tau is the full circle constant, and represents 360 degrees, so one...