Archive for July, 2008

Learning about Geometric Algebra

« 17 July 2008 | 20:03 | Science and Math | No Comments »

David said I should learn about Geometric Algebra. So I wrangled Steve into an explanation over beers at the Fort St. George. It looks very interesting and I wonder if there aren’t uses for it in machine learning. Here are some tutorials:

Imaginary Numbers are Not Real
Geometric algebra:
a computational framework
for geometrical applications, Part [...]



Walmart Growth Over Time

« 12 July 2008 | 7:22 | General | No Comments »

This fantastic map shows the expansion of Walmart locations across the US over time.