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

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Benford's Law is cool, but it's hard to wrap your head around why it
works. The main thing I'm going to cut is the section on linear
algebra. It's sad, but it gives me a chance to propose a part 2 next
year!

Walt

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 09:13:10PM -0500, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> 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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