Night Time Curiosities

I recently found some time to look at the data for the Event Recommendation Engine Challenge on kaggle . I was very annoyed when I saw one ...

Success! I scored higher than Lenstool ! This was one of those Kaggle competitions that I had no right to compete in. My goal was to be...

I've been using the little free time I have to compete in kaggle's  Observing Dark Worlds  competition. I have to say that this mach...

I asked myself a fun question after reading a post on QuantNet. What are the odds of getting two, four, or six heads after five, ten, or a ...

A friend of mine asked me to create a LaTeX template for lecture notes. He wanted to learn LaTeX by typesetting all of his class notes. I th...

Here is a quick tip for those of you who use MacPorts and want pretty syntax highlighting in your LaTeX documents. Recently I discovered a g...

This week I finally found some time to catch up on The Colbert Report and I discovered a mischievous little gem. Stephen Colbert and his sta...

By popular request, this post will present how to acquire intraday stock data from google finance using python. The general structure of the...

Today, I finally discovered a useful application of my chemical engineering degree. To initiate engaging philosophical and mathematical conv...

After doing a fresh install of Mountain Lion I proceeded with my age old tradition of reinstalling all of my favorite libraries from MacPort...