Let’s try some things:
A picture: 
A video:
closing thoughts, Prime VT in SJC
A tweet:
https://twitter.com/osgOlivia/status/532745011134087168
two map locations
Well, is it this easy to add a blog post with windows live writer?
Monthly Archives: December 2014
A good quote from Walter Isaacson
I think it’s wacky and outdated that we teach school math as a process leading up to calculus. That’s a relic of the Sputnik era, when were were all going to calculate rocket trajectories. Instead, starting in fourth grade, I think we should be teaching mathematical logic, proofs, and algorithms. We should also emphasize statistics and probabilities. Every kid should be able to do Boolean algebra and formal logic, rather than getting mired in just traditional algebra. We should also teach programming languages, especially C++, but we need to make sure that kids are also comfortable with the theory and concepts of algorithms, which underpins all programming language. Also, like Ada Lovelace, we should learn that math is a beautiful thing to be visualized, and not just formulas to be memorized. When we see an equation or algorithm or logical sequence, we should visualize it just as we do a line of her dad’s poetry, such as “she walks in beauty like the night.”
playoffPredictor.com Nailed It!
As if ever there was a doubt…
Well, well — In a surprise move, the http://t.co/OKY8ULofBw machine predicts Ohio State takes the 4th spot, not TCU. FSU moves up to #3
— Neville Aga (@CiscoNeville) December 7, 2014
Couldn’t have got it more right, and got it right the instant the games went final.
In fact, the playoffPredictor.com site got every single top 4 for the entire season (with the exception of the initial poll, of course — that is needed to build the bias file between the computer ranking and the committee ranking).
playoffPredictor.com correctly predicted a lot of things the committe did this year, including:
- TCU over Alabama in the October poll
- Ohio State over TCU and Baylor in the final poll
Score 1 for big data and analytics!
Looking forward to keeping the site going next year. I’ll probably also do some other stuff now that the math is coded — such as comparing all teams in the BCS era. Stay tuned!
3rd times a charm
well, I deleted my last 2 blogs.
hopefully this has twitter integration now
#coffee. How you get grown ups to do something that otherwise would be against our human nature. # PowerPoint pic.twitter.com/EGtxpaTo6J
— Neville Aga (@CiscoNeville) December 8, 2014
yeah!