Weekly roundup 5
The first blog post since last week’s roundup was on Laguerre’s root-finding method. Unlike Newton’s method, Laguerre’s method is specialized for polynomials, and will usually converge from any starting point. But it may be hard to predict which root it will converge to. The basins of attraction can have complex fractal-like patterns.
Next was a riff on the observation 10! = 7! × 5! × 3! × 1!. What would you call this pattern? Are there more examples of it?
Wayne wrote a thoughtful article on AI hallucinations. When should you expect them? How might you prevent them? Includes links to scholarly research on the topic by Wayne and by others.
This morning I wrote a post on two Rules of 72, one for interest and one for dipole antennas.
Last year I started a new company, Kingwood Data Privacy LLC, to separate our applied math consulting from our data privacy consulting. Here’s the LinkedIn page for Kingwood.
I’ll be at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in DC next week, so it may be more than a week before I post the next weekly roundup. In addition to these weekly roundup articles, I write Substack “notes” when new posts come out.
Thanks for reading.