Tag: math

• The Happy Equation

  

  My next read is definitely a “Geek Read” – Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat. Solve for Happy is a book about creating and maintaining happiness, written by a top Google executive with an engineer’s training and fondness for thoroughly analyzing a problem, “problems” like self driving cars and Google Glass. Mo applies his engineering skills…

  BriAlys

  April 2017

  Book/Magazine Reviews, STEM, Tech

  algorithm, brain, equation, gawdat, google, happy, illusion, math, mogawdat, psychology, science, stem, think, thinking

• Math for Homeowners

  

  Does buying a home make good financial sense? Does the Math for Homeowners work out? As I sit (or lay) here and watch Inside Job, a documentary on the late 2000’s financial crisis, I am (again) horrified by the series of events, collusion and massive manipulation that took place at the highest levels. To repeat a comment from the documentary,…

  BriAlys

  December 2014

  Money

  cents, deduction, homewoner, interest, math, sense, tax

• New Math

  

  One man’s attempt to quantify the world. NewMath

  BriAlys

  July 2014

  School, STEM

  everything, math, quantity, school, stem

• Algorithms Everywhere

  

  I love MATH, LOGIC, PROBLEM SOLVING and COMPUTERS – not just actually using them, but the actual process of coming up with and building rules to make them behave in a certain way and telling them HOW to do it (that’s called an algorithm and that’s what Software/Computer Engineers do!). Did you know that lots of things we…

  BriAlys

  May 2014

  Design, Education, STEM, Tech, Wedding

  algorithms, code, logic, math, software

• TEDucation

  

  From Math to English, Science and more! TED has you covered! Clayton Cameron: A-rhythm-etic. The math behind the beats Ajit Narayanan: A word game to communicate in any language What we can learn from galaxies far, far away – Henry Lin

  BriAlys

  April 2014

  Education, School, STEM, Tech

  education, english, math, science, TED