math

I've decided to start recording algebra tricks as I end up using them. Today I actually have two tricks, but they end up being used together a lot. I don'

I have spent the last several months doing applied math, culminating in a submission of a paper to a robotics conference [http://www.roboticsconference.org/] (although culminating might be the wrong word, since

I ended my last post on a somewhat dire note, claiming that least squares can do pretty terribly when fitting data. It turns out that things aren't quite as bad as