Archive for December, 2004
- Fruit Fly Genetics :: The “Genetics Laboratory Manual”:http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~garey/labmanfall00.pdf from the University of South Florida has plenty of detail on _Drosophilia Melanogaster_ and the various genetic manipulations available. You can simulate the Mendelian inheritance of a simple trait using a couple of coins and some patience – and a Chi-Squared statistic can be calculated from a table of observed and expected [...] :: Monday, December 20th, 2004 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Statistics notes :: These are mostly first year University level but the datasets, examples and general approaches might be useful for Unit 6 on the BTEC Applied Sciences * Darren Wilkinson is making his “Statistics teaching notes”:http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/d.j.wilkinson/teaching/mas131/, PowerPoint slides and homework exercises freely downloadable as PDFs * John Matthews distributes his Biomedical Science “Statistics module notes”:http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~njnsm/medfac/BMedSci/notes.htm as PDFs Professor Matthews’ Summary [...] :: Friday, December 17th, 2004 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- “From the Vault of the Heavens” :: Filippo Brunelleschi was the mathematician and artist who designed the dome of S. Maria Novella in Florence. How much maths did Brunelleschi know? Did he know about astronomy, and “could he use an Astrolabe”:http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/EMIS/journals/NNJ/Jaff.html ? I was able to find a paper mapping his friendships with local mathematicians and astronomers and astrolabe dealers using the [...] :: Friday, December 10th, 2004 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Lycos Fightback :: Is the “Lycos Fightback”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4065751.stm a distributed denial of service attack or not? Either way, it looks like Lycos have suspended their attempt to hassle the spammers for now, perhaps for fear of retaliation against users. The idea went as follows * Spammers send these daft e-mails to encourage you to visit their idiotic Web sites selling enhancement products [...] :: Friday, December 3rd, 2004 :: Posted in Forensic | Comments Off