Forecasting the Democratic primary This post is inspired by the new FiveThirtyEight primary forecast. It might be tempting to forecast the likely outcome of the primary by looking at the current polls, where they ask people who they would vote for today. ... (more…)

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11155-mathematical_diseases_in_climate_models_and_how_to_cure_them Making climate predictions is extremely difficult because clim... (more…)

Celeste, a statistical analysis model designed to enhance one of modern astronomy’s most time-tested tools—sky surveys—has gotten a major upgrade that dramatically scales up the process of cataloging astronomical objects.

julia - The Julia Language: A fresh approach to technical computing. (more…)

On Dec 8, 1919 Julia Robinson was born, so today is here 100th birthday (she passed away at the age of 65 on July 30, 1985). So time fo... (more…)