Thanks to the Reverend Thomas Bayes your inbox is not full of spam. What does spam have to do with a Presbyterian minister who died in 1761? He was also a statistician and formulated a theorem which bears his name, Bayes' Theorem. Basically it...
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Friday, Jun 3, 2016
Do you know what Voronoi Diagrams and Delaunay Triangulations are? I did not until a few weeks ago. Basically a Voronoi diagram is a set of convex polygons, like in the image to the right. They are created from a set of points called seeds. All of...
Thursday, Feb 25, 2016
One of my children may have an interest in marine biology as future career. I thought it might be fun for us to take scuba lessons together. I investigated doing this for myself last summer but ran out of time. The deep end of a swimming pool...
Tuesday, Dec 22, 2015
Admit it. You want to build a robot. You just saw Star Wars and you still need to get some gifts for your family. I get it. It makes perfect sense to build a robot. When you think about it, who would not want to build a robot? The problem is that...
Thursday, Nov 12, 2015
At my desk I can look out across the alley to the backside of another building. The largest surface is a brick wall painted bright white. On sunny days it can be almost blinding. Occasionally there are messages scrawled across the wall or on the...
Thursday, Apr 30, 2015
Have you ever watched a video on Youtube, which then led you to another and another. Then you realize you have fallen down the rabbit hole. I sometimes do that with books. I will be reading a book which references a person, a subject or another...
Friday, Apr 24, 2015
At least I haven't read them in the way that most people read books. I mostly read nonfiction, usually how to do or make something instead of just facts. I rarely read books cover to cover. I skim them and find the parts that either have the...
Friday, Mar 27, 2015
I saw an online review for the latest book by Haruki Murakami called The Strange Library . It has been several years since I have finished one of his books. I have started a few but never followed through and read the whole things. I didn't even...
Thursday, Feb 5, 2015
Did you know that you can search for articles directly from the catalog, without retyping your search into a separate database? From the catalog’s homepage, http://alec.icpl.org , make sure you are using the default “Catalog Pro” tab. Type...
Saturday, Aug 30, 2014
Fans of True Detective have heard of Carcosa and The Yellow King but might not know where they are originally from. I did not until Candice pointed it out to me. Carcosa was first mentioned in the short story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose...
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About Todd
Todd is the ILS Administrator and takes care of the catalog.