[NCLUG] Greetings and amazing offer

James DeWitt jdewitt at verinet.com
Fri Mar 21 13:09:52 MDT 2008


Hi Jim,

The topic is "short topics" on April 8th, so you daughter
can definitely talk about her project then. Also, there are
likely to be some very active Python and Ubuntu, etc., 
people there she can network with.

Thanks,
James DeWitt


On Friday 21 March 2008 11:33:50 am Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am new to this list but met some of you at the last meeting. My name is
> Jim Hutchinson and I was the one who spoke briefly about the Technology in
> Education conference in June. I'm writing for a different reason today -
> though let me know if you are interested in TIE.
>
> My daughter is working on her 6th grade science fair project. It is a
> comparison of true and pseudo random number generators. She is using the
> sums of two dice as her experimental model and has Ruby and Python scripts
> to generate X number of "rolls". She is comparing the observed frequencies
> of each sum to the expected frequencies using a chi-square test. She is
> also collecting data on real world dice rolls to compare to the pRNGs. Her
> entire project is done using FLOSS - Ubuntu OS, OO.o, and Ruby and Python.
>
> I have told her that part of doing good research is connecting with a
> community. For example, to start, she emailed the Ubuntu list and asked for
> help with the scripts. Soon, it will be time to present her findings. I was
> wondering if it would be possible for her to do a short presentation at the
> next NCLUG meeting (4/8)? If not, a later one would also work, but the
> actual fair is in mid-April and I think it would be cool if she could do
> something before then. I don't think it would be more than 15 mins unless
> there were a lot of questions - which would be fine too. Mainly, I just
> want her to get some experience presenting.
>
> Thanks,
> -jim





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