Re: dimensional analysis and units<div><br></div><div>- pint does units:</div><div> <a href="https://github.com/hgrecco/pint">https://github.com/hgrecco/pint</a></div><div> <a href="https://github.com/hgrecco/pint/blob/master/pint/default_en.txt">https://github.com/hgrecco/pint/blob/master/pint/default_en.txt</a></div><div><br></div><div>- CSVW can handle units (with QUDT URIs)</div><div> - {CSV, JSON,} don't include support for datatypes or units</div><div> - ( Spreadsheet tools should handle units (and significant digits) just as well as they handle columnar/series/range text formatting. #LinkedReproducibility )</div><div><br>On Monday, September 4, 2017, Wes Turner <<a href="mailto:wes.turner@gmail.com">wes.turner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br>On Monday, September 4, 2017, kirby urner <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kirby.urner@gmail.com');" target="_blank">kirby.urner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>PS: <br></div><div><br></div><div>my recent exercises in teaching math with Python, ala Peter Farrell, is sparking some heated debate on math-teach.<br><br><a href="http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2876811" target="_blank">http://mathforum.org/kb/thread<wbr>.jspa?threadID=2876811</a> (especially in recent days, early September 2017)<br><br></div>Bob Hansen is trashing this writing as some of the worst pedagogy he's ever seen. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm trying to incorporate some of his feedback in my latest revisions.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe a bit OT:</div><div><br></div><div>I've wondered whether we could/should instead start mathematics education with bits as entropy (information theory first)?:</div><div><br></div><div>- base 2: 00, 01, 10, 11 (on our hands (2**?))</div><div>- counting</div><div>- ASCII (0-127)</div><div> - how do we know the number represents an integer or a character? ... Encoding, Types</div><div> - The number zero is actually # (code point): ___</div><div>- Unicode</div><div>- class SpecialString(str)</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>- Binary and then floating point arithmetic</div><div> - unary, binary operators</div><div> - import operators: sorted(dir(operators))</div><div> - left and right shift</div><div> - multiplication as repeated addition</div><div> - long division</div><div> - floating point (error, BigFloat)</div><div> - symbolic mathematics</div><div> - MathJax, LaTeX (how to even type this?)</div><div> - CAS: SymPy, latex2sympy</div><div> </div><div>- Entropy</div><div> - Independence of observations</div><div> - Maximum Information</div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>class Shape</div><div>class Quadrilateral</div><div>class Rectangle</div><div>class Square</div><div>class Triangle</div><div>class RightTriangle</div><div>def perimiter</div><div>def area</div><div>def vertexes</div><div><br></div><div>def scale</div><div>def rotate</div><div><br></div><div>class PlatonicSolid</div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Are there computer science & mathematics curricula like this (that start with entropy)?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Our debates are reminiscent of some we've had here on this list in years gone by.</div><div><br></div><div>I've also been chronicling my progress in this related thread:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2877392" target="_blank">http://mathforum.org/kb/thread<wbr>.jspa?threadID=2877392</a><br></div><div><br></div>Kirby<br><br><br></div>
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