I've decided to leave Scientopia, and go off on my own. Details about why can be found at the new site, goodmath.org. Update your links! The new RSS is here. All of the existing posts and comments have been moved over. I'm shutting down comments here, but you're welcome to come on over to the new site and continue any open conversations!

Since K&R's book on C, it's become traditional to start any tutorial on a new language is to present a program that prints "Hello world". For ARM assembly running on Raspbian Linux, that traditional program looks like: .global _start _start: MOV R7, #4 MOV R0, #1 MOV R2, #12 LDR R1, =string SWI 0 MOV R7, #1 SWI 0 .data string: ...

Back when I was a student working on my PhD, I specialized in programming languages. Lucky for me I did it a long time ago! According to Wired, if I was working on it now, I'd be out of luck - the problem is already solved! See, these guys built a new programming language which solves all the problems! I mean, just look how daft all of us programming...

I'm coming in to this a bit late, but since I really do care about the online science blogging community,I still have something that I want to say. For those who don't know, there's a complete horses ass named Henry Gee. Henry is an editor at the science journal Nature. Poor Henry got into some fights with DrIsis (a prominent science blogger), and...

After the whole Plait fiasco with the sum of the infinite series of natural numbers, I decided it would interesting to dig into the real math behind that mess. That means digging in to the Riemann function, and the concept of analytic continuation. A couple of caveats before I start: this is the area of math where I'm at my worst. I am not good at...

This morning, my friend Dr24Hours pinged me on twitter about some bad math: Attn @MarkCC: http://t.co/ijzQZpM2lm (Sum(NatNums)= -1/12 bullshit) h/t @NeuroPolarbear@BadAstronomer Shame on you, @Slate. — Dr24hours (@Dr24hours) January 17, 2014 And indeed, he was right. Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer, of all people, got taken in by a bit of mathematical...