Bossy Lobster

A blog by Danny Hermes; musing on tech, mathematics, etc.

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Graduated

After five years, I'm excited to say I've finished my PhD. I certainly learned a lot and met a lot of great people along the way.

One of the biggest lessons I learned was about myself: I need to say no more often. I continued to say yes, to side …

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Installing Python on OS X

Caveat: I stopped using a Mac for my development machine way back in the fall of 2014. You probably shouldn't listen to me.

What Not to Do

The first rule of using Python on any operating system: don't use system Python. The OS relies on that Python, including the packages …

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How Does Go Compute a Logarithm

About a year ago, I was reading the Go source for computing log(x)\log(x) and was very surprised by the implementation.1

Even three years into a PhD in Applied Math (i.e. numerics), I still managed to learn something by diving in and trying …