Re: [PLUG] Potential topic for PLUG North on Tuesday

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Sure, why not?  +1 for me.  Or should that be ++?

I'd say you should include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law also, but a) that's not really "Remedial Math" though it's arguably a good sanity check for programmers to know and b) you are trying to cut things, not add them.  :-)


On 3/9/23 07:41 PM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was accepted as a speaker for this year's Central PA Open Source
> Conference (CPOSC) [1], which will be held in Lancaster on Saturday,
> April 1. That's just 3 weeks from Saturday, so if you're interested in
> going this is a good time to get a ticket.
>
> The talk that got accepted is "Remedial Math for Programmers". It's a
> review of some basic mathematical concepts that are particularly
> useful for programming, but which I think a lot of programmers either
> never learned formally, or have forgotten all about -- things like
> logarithms, modulus arithmetic, and trigonometry.
>
> Now, I've already given this talk in Philly twice before -- once at
> FOSSCON in 2019, and at PLUG North in February 2020. (That was the
> last North meeting before lockdown.) But that was over 3 years ago,
> and I also need to cut it down to a 30 minute time slot. [2]
>
> I'd like to have a chance to practice it before CPOSC. Our next PLUG
> North meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 14, and we're still
> looking for a speaker. Would anyone be interested in seeing me present
> it again Tuesday night?
>
> Walt
>
> 1. https://cposc.org/
> 2. Will says I also need to work in a reference to Kalman filters.


Later,
JP
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