Re: Math deck (was: Re: [GitHub] incubator-pirk pull request #92: [Pirk 67] - Add Slide Deck to the Website D...)

2016-09-19 Thread Walter Ray-Dulany
One explicit vote, one implicit vote for updating/clarifying the slides. I've created PIRK-69 to improve slide clarity. Unless this doesn't make sense (tell me) I'll mark PRs on this as WIPs until I've got some agreement from the community that the slides are clear enough. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016

Re: Math deck (was: Re: [GitHub] incubator-pirk pull request #92: [Pirk 67] - Add Slide Deck to the Website D...)

2016-09-19 Thread Ryan Carr
Hey Walter / Tim, I just wanted to add I had some trouble similar to Tim's when trying to understand the Wideskies paper. As a person without a background in group theory/theoretical math trying to get my head around this stuff, it was very difficult for me to even find with Google what the

Re: Math deck (was: Re: [GitHub] incubator-pirk pull request #92: [Pirk 67] - Add Slide Deck to the Website D...)

2016-09-19 Thread Walter Ray-Dulany
Correction: ...bby the binomial theorem, (1+N)**N = 1 + N*N + other terms divisible... I multiplied by N on the left when I ought to have exponentiated Walter On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Walter Ray-Dulany wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Apologies! It's disorienting at first,