Monthly Archives: October 2009

I was digging around on the Wayback Machine today, and stumbled across a lost piece of code from December 2004. It’s a Strange Attractor Generator, from the pages of Clifford Pickover’s book Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty (p 165). As … Continue reading →

Queues are comprised of customers joining, waiting and then being served. There are two random processes here: arrivals, and serving time, which in this case are both Poisson processes. There can be one or more servers. A handy notation for … Continue reading →

You have a set of friends, colleagues and vague acquaintances you’ve accumulated over the years, and expressed as a graph of connections in various applications such as Facebook, Myspace, blog networks, twitter, flickr etc. You’ve spent years constructing a trail … Continue reading →

I’ve had the builders in, and redesigned this blog. The main aim has been to make a bit more room. The default WordPress theme, despite cosmetic adjustments, is a little mean and narrow – while the wide themes all have … Continue reading →