[HN Gopher] Interview with John Cook: mathematical consultant ___________________________________________________________________ Interview with John Cook: mathematical consultant Author : jgamman Score : 54 points Date : 2022-06-28 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (sinews.siam.org) (TXT) w3m dump (sinews.siam.org) | abhgh wrote: | Highly recommend his blog [1] - where he often writes bite-sized | math-y articles. I have personally benefited from it; I was | looking for ways to sample quickly from a mixture of Beta | distributions when I stumbled upon his post on the _Kumaraswamy | distribution_ [2], which takes on Beta-like shapes but has a | closed form expression for the cumulative distribution function | (CDF). The latter property makes generating samples from it | convenient and fast. | | [1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ | | [2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/11/24/kumaraswamy- | distri... | jofer wrote: | In addition to being a great resource on mathematics and | scientific computing in general, if you're working in the | scientific python ecosystem, his blog (and assorted similar | content on twitter/etc) is a must-read. There's often a lot of | great scientific python content there too. | chmaynard wrote: | John D. Cook seems like the type of person who would inevitably | rise to the top of their chosen profession, regardless of which | path they took to get there. He is very intelligent, creative, | and determined to do things his own way. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-28 23:00 UTC)