Brian E. Granger
As a university physics professor, I regularly teach introductory physics courses (both calculus and algebra based). Most introductory physics textbooks cover the same set of topics:
Newtonian mechanics Waves and sound Thermodynamics Electromagnetism Optics Modern physics (relativity, atomic, nuclear, particle)
There is something puzzling but profound about this list of topics. Why do I say [...]
In a previous blog post, I talked about the problem of ever expanding feature sets in open source software projects. I discussed the hidden costs and liabilities of adding new features and proposed practical ways of tackling these problems. However, I think that story is incomplete. Of course open source [...]
Follow up: I have created another blog post to clarify some of these issues here.
The IPython project, through UC Berkeley and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, just received a $1.15 million dollar grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop the IPython Notebook over a two year period. [...]
This past month, I attended PyData NY in midtown Manhattan. This is the second PyData conference and the folks at Continuum Analytics have done a spectacular job in promoting and running this conference. In less than a year PyData has grown to over 200 attendees. The timing [...]
The IPython dev team gets a lot of questions about how IPython Notebooks can be used on various blogging platforms. There have been a number of different attempts to use nbconvert to export a notebook to HTML and then embedding that HTML in the blogging platform. With the introduction of
Here are some photos of the new cluster, which we are calling “dirac”, in the Physics department. This cluster will be used for research in a broad range of fields in the department including:
Quantum information Atomic and molecular physics Parallel and distributed computing Astrophysics and cosmology Particle and nuclear physics Particle beam physics Seismology [...]
I began playing with computers back in the early 80′s when my elementary school got an Apple II. I was immediately drawn to it and began coming in whenever I could and playing around. I began with LOGO (remember the turtle) and later moved on to BASIC. Eventually, I convinced my parents that we really [...]
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