{"id":502,"date":"2009-01-02T02:44:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T01:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2015-03-06T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T09:58:13","slug":"site-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?page_id=502","title":{"rendered":"Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with the format of a blog is that all posts are in chronological order which can make it difficult to find content a few months or more after it was written.\u00a0 This article brings together some of my favourite posts and also aims to give new visitors a flavour of what Walking Randomly is all about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3658\">Book review: The Philosophical Breakfast Club<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2866\">Recommended books for learning MATLAB (from 2010)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bits and Pieces<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3586\">In Defense of Inefficient Scientific Code<\/a> &#8211; Most computer software written by scientists is ineffcient&#8230;and that&#8217;s OK!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5680\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Compiling environment-modules on Ubuntu Linux<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Scientific Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5679\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Software you lose when leaving a University: MATLAB<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5673\">Software you lose when leaving a University: Mathematica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mobile Mathematics Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2692\">Math on iPad #1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2947\">Math on iPad #2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3512\">Math on iPad #3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=14\">Mathematics on the Pocket PC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mathematica<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3635\">Making Mathematica Faster with Compile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3715\">Interactive Slinky Thing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3323\">Mathematica Tutorial: Interactive Mathematics in the Web Browser<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3217\">Mathematica: The difference between Equal and SameQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3030\">How many MATLAB toolboxes make a Mathematica 8?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=2200\">Plotting in a loop in Mathematica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=1456\">A Parallel programming tip for Mathematica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=1569\">Mathematica\u2019s Table function \u2013 not always the fastest way to make a table<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=801\">A random collection of bugs in Mathematica 7 and 7.0.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=1659\">RationalQ \u2013 Testing for rationals in Mathematica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=166\">Notes on Mathematica 7 : Parallelize on Ubuntu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Maple<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=650\">A Mathematica user installs Maple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1837\">Parallel programming in Maple<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MATLAB<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3730\">MATLAB GPU\/CUDA Experiences on my laptop<\/a> &#8211; A series of articles about GPU computing in MATLAB<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2755\">Parallel Random Numbers in MATLAB #1<\/a> &#8211; An introduction to some of the details behind random number generation in MATLAB<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3677\">Pendulum Waves Animation in MATLAB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1795\">Parallel MATLAB with openmp mex files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1894\">Which MATLAB functions are multicore aware?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1502\">Converting from cell arrays to matrices in MATLAB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=789\">Fun with linspace and the colon operator in MATLAB<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1552\">A faster version of MATLAB\u2019s interp1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=160\">NAG &#8211; The Ultimate MATLAB Toolbox?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1590\">Mark 22 of the NAG toolbox for MATLAB released<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=155\">How to call the NAG Libraries from Excel using VBA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Python<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5683\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Which Python 2-&gt;Python 3 changes caught you out<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5588\">Solving the nearest correlation matrix problem using Python<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Mathematical Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1633\">Detexify answers \u2018What\u2019s the LaTeX code for this symbol?\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=2006\">Using SAGE to investigate the discrete logistic equation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1879\">nteractive Fourier Series with SAGE math<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=2079\">Maxima Tutorial \u2013 plotting direction fields for 1st order ODEs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1676\">Free mathcad alternative, SMath Studio, updated to v0.85<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=534\">Simfit &#8211; A free package for Curve fitting, statistics, plotting and more<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=103\">Interacting with SAGE &#8211; Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=28\">Review of Gnuplot 4.2 for Windows Mobile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=682\">Graphic Calculator on the Nintendo DS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=252\">Are computer algebra bugs good for us?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=81\">Computer Algebra Systems in odd places #1 &#8211; The Nintendo DS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Random Tips, Tricks and Tutorials<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=135\">A little Virtualbox Tip<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=94\">Abaqus installation problems on 64 bit Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mathematics (serious and otherwise)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1670\">Why is a \u2018minus times a minus equal to a plus\u2019?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1471\">Wheels on Wheels on Wheels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1701\">The unreasonable ineffectiveness of factoring<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=626\">Quadraflakes, Pentaflakes, Hexaflakes and more<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=697\">Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s Heptagon <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=645\">Full versions of historical mathematical texts (for free!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=484\">What is interesting about the number 2009?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=151\">Simulating Harmonographs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=133\">Fibonacci numbers from matrix determinants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=157\">The smallest positive integer that google has never heard of<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=423\">Maths Demonstrations for Christmas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=91\">Making Physics Fun &#8211; 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