I’ve been spending some time reading other math blogs to get ideas about how
to organize and utilize this blog. In the course of this I’ve run across
several great blogs. I’ve only sampled them randomly, but here are a few
posts that caught my eye for one reason or another that I’d like to pass
on…
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I’m getting a head start on my New Year’s resolutions and starting a blog.
Actually it is more of a “sabbatical resolution”, and sabbatical started December 16. One of the things I hope to do is post frequent updates on
my activities and interesting things I encounter in the next few months.
Why write a blog? I’ve always enjoyed writing lecture notes and books,
and even software documentation. A blog seems like a natural extension
of this as a place to share interesting things I’ve learned in an informal manner. It will also be another tool (along with email, Skype, and claw-dev) to keep in touch with my group while I’m traveling (yes, there will be a quiz at the end of
the year).
I also believe it’s important for mathematicians and scientists to
make more effort to explain to the public what we do and why we
think it’s important, and perhaps I can make some modest contributions.
Finally, as an advocate of more openness and reproducibility in
computational science, I hope this blog may be a useful step in
this direction for my own work. Recently Michael Nielsen gave a
CSE colloquium at UW about his new book “Reinventing Discovery”
(which I highly recommend). Dhavide Aruliah was also visiting and
the three of us had a fun meal discussing many things, including
the utility of blogging. I resolved to give it a try, so here it goes…
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