A ConTeXt style file for formatting RSS feeds for Kindle
As I said in the last post, I bought an Amazon Kindle Touch sometime back, and I find it very …
Category Archives: Programming
Don’t complicate your code
A friend sent me a link to a blog post that discusses solutions to the Josephus problem in Perl, Ruby, …
Programming in Maxima
Recently, in one of my papers I needed to do somewhat involved polynomial algebra. Basically, adding and substracting polynomials in p and 1-p with degree n. The calculations were relatively straight forward, but I always make silly mistakes with such calculations. So, I decided to check my analysis using a computer algebra system. Matlab and Mathematica, perhaps the most popular computer algebra softwares (although Matlab is focussed more on numerical calculations), were out of the picture because they are commercial and I did not have site licenses for them. So, I googled a bit and settled on Maxima [...]
Imitating Metapost using Haskell
Brent Yorgey has released a Haskell EDSL for creating diagrams. Here is my first impression of the library, comparing it …
Assertions in Haskell
Sometime back, I posted how to solve the Monty Hall problem with a million doors. Christophe Poucet wondered if I …
Problem of Points using Monte Carlo
A Franciscan monk named Luca Paccioli wrote a book Summa de arithmetic, geometrica et proportionalitià in 1494, where is posed …
The tale of two tiling WMs
I love tinkering with my system. About a year ago, I got this crazy idea of trying different window managers …
Haskell on Arch Linux
I was a happy user of Ubuntu until a few months ago when GHC 6.10 was released. Ubuntu still had …
Monty Hall with a billion doors
In order to provide intuition behind the solution of the Monty Hall problem, Antonio Cangiano says: If there were a …
Monty Hall problem using Monte Carlo simulations
n0ne showed how to translate Monte Carlo simulations of the Monty Hall Problem from Ruby and Python to Haskell. Since …
