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Affirming expertise

I was asked recently by a senior colleague if I know what a circuit breaker is. It was genuinely well intentioned; many engineers haven’t…

Mar 8, 2022

Green Sea Turtle flying with glee over the Coral Sea in the Great Barrier Reef. Blue hues of sea and beautiful reddish brown turtle shell.

Mar 8, 2022

Duana Saskia

Musings on curvature and twist of a space curve vector calculus

Apr 26, 2021

Musings on curvature and twist of a space curve vector calculus

Apr 26, 2021

Duana Saskia

Discovering Ada’s Bernoulli Numbers, Part 1

Have you ever wondered what the first computer program, designed by Ada Lovelace, was supposed to do? Hint: it didn’t print out “Hello…

Oct 8, 2018

Discovering Ada’s Bernoulli Numbers, Part 1

Oct 8, 2018

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Pascal’s Triangle Reloaded: Combinations with repetitions

In my previous post on Pascal’s triangle I showed how to derive the formulas for permutations and combinations and why they correspond to…

May 4, 2018

Pascal’s Triangle Reloaded: Combinations with repetitions

May 4, 2018

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Interview tips: the free-form technical chat

Being interviewed is, next to giving talks, pretty damn stressful. And like talks, it doesn’t seem to matter how much experience I have, I…

Apr 4, 2018

Apr 4, 2018

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Compound interest confoundedly profound

Finally I can tell you why I started this maths blog series. I was supposed to be doing something for my financial future. I thought “hmm I…

Oct 13, 2017

Compound interest confoundedly profound

Oct 13, 2017

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Pascal’s Triangle: how I love how thee let me count the ways

The Staircase of Mount Meru. Khayyam’s Triangle. Yang Hui’s Triangle. There are many names for Pascal’s Triangle.

Aug 18, 2017

Pascal’s Triangle: how I love how thee let me count the ways

Aug 18, 2017

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This week I start a new job as VP of Engineering, Apps at Clue!

I made the decision to leave a couple of months ago and the recent news has been hard. SoundCloud has been the best company to work for…

Jul 21, 2017

This week I start a new job as VP of Engineering, Apps at Clue!

Jul 21, 2017

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Geometric series: means to no end

You might have heard this old nursery rhyme:

Apr 9, 2017

Geometric series: means to no end

Apr 9, 2017

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Improving everyday decisions

Decision paralysis. That state you fall into when you stand perplexed before an everyday decision: you are no longer present in the world…

Feb 25, 2017

Improving everyday decisions

Feb 25, 2017

Duana Saskia

Duana Saskia

Everyone is technical. I love computers, education, foreign languages & coffee. Software Engineer. Accept-Language: de, pt-br, pt, id, ms, en-gb, en

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