John D. Cook

Houston, TX

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I'm a very applied mathematician and software developer. I work as an independent consultant.

I blog at The Endeavour and I'm @JohnDCook on Twitter.

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Entering Unicode characters in LaTeX

unicode asked Oct 20 '08 at 20:48

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47 votes

Extracting text from HTML file using Python

python html text html-content-extraction asked Nov 30 '08 at 2:28

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27 votes

How do you program differently in dynamic languages?

dynamic-languages asked Dec 18 '08 at 20:24

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21 votes

How Emacs determines a unit of work to undo

emacs asked Jul 6 '11 at 2:17

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20 votes

Typesetting music in LaTeX

latex asked Mar 15 '09 at 19:57

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19 votes

Does the distribution $\log(1 + x^{-2}) / 2\pi$ have a name?

distributions probability asked Feb 9 '11 at 19:34

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17 votes

Statistical podcasts

books asked Jul 28 '10 at 17:43

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16 votes

Difficulty of testing linearity in regression

regression goodness-of-fit asked Apr 18 '11 at 18:24

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14 votes

How do I create a .NET assembly in IronPython and call it from C#?

assemblies ironpython asked Feb 18 '09 at 15:28

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14 votes

Has anyone used SciPy with IronPython?

ironpython scipy asked Feb 22 '09 at 8:57

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Fastest way to determine if an integer's square root is an integer

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Interesting results easily achieved using complex numbers

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implementing the derivative in C/C++

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Why haven't robust (and resistant) statistics replaced classical techniques?

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How does C compute sin() and other math functions?

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When to use friend class in C++

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Why are differentiable complex functions infinitely differentiable?

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Python Inverse of a Matrix

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Is there an easily available implementation of erf() for Python?

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What's the difference between probability and statistics?

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What's the best way to learn LISP?

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what is the most efficient way to calculate the least common multiple of two integers

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Relationship between scipy and numpy

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What is the community's take on the Fourth Quadrant?

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Is LaTeX worth learning today?

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implementation of rand()

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Why is multiple comparison a problem?

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How is $\mathbb{C}$ different than $\mathbb{R}^2$?

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Best practices in LaTeX

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Python as a statistics workbench

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Recommend an Open Source .NET Statistics Library

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