Distribution of Pancake Day
Today is pancake day and it got me thinking about the fact that I remember the day falling on my birthday (March 7th) just once in my lifetime. How long will I have to wait until it next falls on my birthday?
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Delete large number of jobs with SGE
Sometimes I accidentally add lots of jobs to our SGE queue and want a quick way to delete them.
Relationship between Car Insurance Price and Population Density
There was some discussion in my office today about the correlation between car insurance prices and where you live. The idea being that the prices are correlated with population density.
Install G77 on Ubuntu >=14.04
In 2012 I wrote how to install G77 on Ubuntu >=9.04. However that approach no longer works (yet that particular blog posts gets lots of hits because of a link from stackoverflow). So here are some updated instructions which work for Ubuntu >= 14.04.
How to Install the Edimax AC600 Wireless Driver for the Raspberry Pi
I use an Edimax AC600 series USB wireless device for my raspberry pi on Raspbian. Here is the easy way to install the driver for it.
Number of Unique Song Choices on Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs celebrates its 75th birthday today, and today’s guest is David Beckham. Beckham will pick 8 song choices to take away with him on a desert island. What I wondered was, will all of his song choices have been picked by guests previously? With over 3,000 episodes there are going to be a lot […]
Maths on a Mug #16
#mathsonamug pic.twitter.com/Rd0IAC9YHw — Sean Elvidge (@seanelvidge) November 17, 2016 Perhaps a “simple” #mathsonthemug this time. Simple, but very important. This is Bayes’ theorem: \[P(A|B) = \frac{P(B|A)P(A)}{P(B)}.\] This relates the probability of observing \(A\) given that \(B\) is true where \(A\) and \(B\) are events, we also require that the probability of \(B\) does not equal […]
Dealing with WordPress Security Issues
Recently another WordPress site that I manage has had a lot of malware issues.
Maths on a Mug #15
#mathsonamug #maths #newpoundcoin pic.twitter.com/lMQm5uOUyl — Sean Elvidge (@seanelvidge) November 4, 2016 Keeping with the theme of yesterdays blog post about the new pound coin and shapes of constant diameter here is a nice little result known as Barbier’s theorem. Simply, it says that for any curve of constant diameter (width; \(w\)) the perimeter of that shape […]
New Pound Coin
Anyone who knows me / has been lucky (!) enough to have been on a maths or physics course taught by me will know how I like to moan about the mathematics of the new pound coin…