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The blog of John D. Cook

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Here is a list of some of the blog posts that have been most popular.

Creativity

God is in the details
Getting to the bottom of things
Simple legacy
Strategy for dealing with information overload

Software development

Plain Python
Floating point numbers are a leaky abstraction
IronPython is a one-way gate
Negative space in operating systems
Experienced programmers and lines of code

Math

Interpolation errors
Jenga mathematics
How to compute binomial coefficients
Old math books
Fast way to tell whether a number is a square

Business and management

Do you really want to be indispensable?
Medieval project management
Peter Drucker and abandoning projects

Statistics

Why microarray study conclusions are so often wrong
Comparing three methods of computing standard deviation
Wine, Beer, and Statistics
Rolling dice for normal samples

Miscellaneous

Evaluate people at their best or their worst?
Music in 5/4 time
LaTeX and PowerPoint presentations
Three ways to enter Unicode characters in Windows

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