Some mathematical topics can be useful in various real life cases… Expected value is one of these that can inform mathematical thinking in many practical ways. The basic formula:
Expected value = sum( Xi * Pi )
Continue reading “Expected Value Estimations In Finance, in Business, and in Health”If you’ve used Matomo (formerly Piwik) for user tracking you may know that it’s quite easy to add in the Matomo tracking code to pages or base blade.php templates… but the new AI Insights tab is empty?? And furthermore there is no instruction on how to add it to a Laravel based site which you think would be fairly common:
Continue reading “Adding Matomo AI Insights from Laravel”This week the previous Outlook Lite was discontinued, as you may have seen with the warnings in app for weeks now. The preferred Outlook app they send you to not only has 6 different tracking/advert libraries in it, the download is over 100MB! There are operating systems that are smaller than that. No thanks….
Continue reading “Outlook Lite is gone… but the web version lives on?”SOME math contest in an annual celebration of math and math teaching through building content to share online.
Continue reading “It’s time! Summer of Math Exposition Contest is up again!”In recent months the AI tools have made it much easier to make realistic looking AI junk. Since this has populated on Youtube and many other platforms it’s important to not be swayed by false programming…
Continue reading “PSA – Warning on AI generated video/news”If you have been following some of the news about RAM/chip shortage, and considering a new laptop, you may have been watching the news from Framework, and also the news from Purism..
Continue reading “FrameWORK’s new laptop and a tale of two preorders”If you’ve been programming, or learning programming over the past year or so, you should have seen many of the coding assistants… MS Copilot, Claude, Chatgpt and similar. While these have been very handy in looking up how to build a thing – and even building the thing (sometimes successfully!) There are a lot of reasons why you should do the real coding for your project… Or at least read and add your changes and files manually, from a browser vs built in IDE features.
Continue reading “A Case Against the AI-IDE”March 14th is Pi day – a national holiday in celebration of mathematics. For anyone who has done anything with morse code or ham radio, this game combines them with Pi digits for a challenging game:
Continue reading “Happy Pi Day! Try the new Pi+Morse Code Game.”If you’re like me you may have preferred the old open-source Silence app, over the default Android’s text messages for many years… It had an optional encrypt option that sometimes worked, it had its own backup/restore to restore to a new phone, but unfortunately that is incompatible with others and now has an incompatibility warning with Android 15…
Continue reading “Importing old Silence Texts/SMS to QKSMS/Android”As you may have heard in the news today, many thousands of cell phone users did not have service today, on Verizon or phones trying to connect to a Verizon number.
Continue reading “Verizon Outage Highlights need for Amateur Radio, Backup Radios”