Today the world celebrates the incredibly important, yet often overlooked, contribution of seafarers to our daily lives. This address by the president of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) reminds us that our modern lives without seafarers’ labour would be unthinkable… Read More ›
Archive for June 25th, 2012
Warning: statistical inaccuracies in Microsoft Excel 2007
Thanks to mathematician-friends and social networking sites, today I encountered this 2008 article by McCullough and Heiser on the statistical inaccuracies of Microsoft’s package Excel. What is so striking about the article is not merely the angry tone in which… Read More ›