The Five College Consortium is hosting the DataFest contest in two weeks, starting Friday 03/28 and finishing Sunday 03/30. Here’s the text from the official website. DataFest is a nationally-coordinated undergraduate competition in which teams of up to 5 students work over a weekend to extract insight from a rich and complex data set. Last year’s data (this year’s will not be revealed until the event begins) … Continue reading Five College DataFest
Here’s two articles by John Cook, regarding scientific computing. The links will take you at the CodeProject site. Avoiding Overflow, Underflow, and Loss of Precision Five tips for floating point programming You can find all of his articles here. Continue reading Two programming gems by John Cook
Hi everyone! Today I will show you a cool method to find the minimum (or maximum) of a function , where A could be a subset of the reals or of the complex numbers. So, let’s say that you want to find the minimum of This function has a complex landscape. and of course it’s easy to see the where the global minimum is and … Continue reading Finding the minimum : Step 1, apply heat. Step 2, wait for the function to cool off. Step 3, enjoy.
Hi everyone! For this vect tip of the week, we will see how we can compute weighted sums quickly. Those are sums of the form, where are the numbers that we want to sum and are the weights. Let’s start from simple sums where the weights are all one, . In Matlab, that can be done in many ways. First of all, one might be tempted … Continue reading Vect tip of the week : Summing it up
Hi all! I have collected a bunch of things that I want to write about. The graduate courses I am taking are full of interesting stuff, some of which I haven’t seen before and I will start commenting on them the following days. Today I want to say “thank you” to Mathworks for providing us with a tool on which we can develop ideas in … Continue reading Developing ideas in Matlab : You are doing it right!
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