I missed Tau day, which was the 28th of June. However, I've been thinking about the intersection of Tau, complex numbers, code libraries and Javascript in analytics for a while now, and this seemed like a good chance to explore one of my favorite topics: Tauism. -- Kurt Cagle

One of the things that most young mathematicians…

In my previous post in which I discussed names, I also led in with the fact that I am a writer. Significantly, I did not really talk much about that particular assertion, because is in fact comes with its own…

I wrote on this topic way back in 2016, but when a recent reader indicated that the original article didn't have images anymore (it happens), it seemed like a good opportunity to write about it again.

I am Kurt Cagle, or, according to my birth certificate, Kurt Alan Cagle. My name is Kurt Cagle.

Now, think about that…

Spend any time at all in the machine learning space, and pretty soon you will encounter the term "feature". It's a term that may seem self-evident at first, but it very quickly descends into a level of murkiness that can leave most laypeople (and even many programmers) confused, especially when you hear examples of machine learning systems that involve…

I got my second Pfizer Covid shot today, which means that I'm now part of the growing post-Pandemic population. Having been more or less in quarantine from the middle of March of 2020, I'm more than ready enough to leave behind the masks, to visit the coffeeshop and the barber and the gym, to be able to go into a restaurant without trying to…

This article is also available as a podcast on Spotify. and was originally published on The Cagle Report. 

Education, especially college education, is facing an existential crisis. Partially due to demographic factors, and in part due to decisions…