Showing posts with label maths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maths. Show all posts
08 July 2010

Free Software Coder Bullied over *Algorithm*

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As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, one of the many reasons I am against software patents is that software consists of algorit...
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23 December 2009

All Hail the Mighty Algorithm

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As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, one of the reasons I regard software patents as dangerous is because software consists of ...
15 October 2009

Open Sourcing America's Operating System

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And how do you do that? By making all of the laws freely available - and, presumably, searchable and mashable: Public.Resource.Org is very...
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03 April 2009

Why We Should Teach Maths with Open Source

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Recently, I was writing about science and open source (of which more anon); here are some thoughts on why maths ought to be taught using f...
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15 November 2008

Of Lawyers and Software Patents

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Regular readers will know that I have a bee in my bonnet about the non-patentability of software, largely because of the fact that software ...
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08 December 2007

Sage Does the Maths of Free Software

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One of the persistent myths about free software is that successes like Linux are one-offs, and that the open source methodology can't be...
17 October 2007

Patently Wrong, Mathematically Proved

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Well, after yesterday's post about a paper drawing fascinating parallels between today's patent trolls and yesteryear's patent ...
10 August 2007

Of Maths, Shares and Horoscopes

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I have been a mathematician since the age of eight. As such, I tend to look at the world through the optics of mathematics. For this reaso...
28 March 2007

Openness, Surveillance and Privacy

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Previous posts have noted that there is an inherent tension between openness and privacy. That tension is even more acute in the case of su...