Posts filed under “Commentary”
Statistics with Julia
I first heard about the Julia programming language a little over a month ago, in the middle of February with their first blog post: "Why We Created Julia". This was an exciting turn of events. We want a language that’s open source, with a liberal license. We want the speed of C with the dynamism [...]
The Open Education Movement Continues
Readers of this blog will no doubt be eagerly following along with the continuing developments of open education at Coursera and Udacity. As a professed autodidact, I have been a long-time consumer of online education, especially through iTunes university, and I'm really excited to see where everything is going. I regretfully won't have time to [...]
Did open source kill your value?
Open source* can be very appealing. An author of a story often won't feel satisfied until his work is in the hands of the general public. Simiarly, we get some satisfaction when our source code is publicly available. When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. - Thomas Jefferson [...]