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NEW Evan's Awesome A/B Tools

Desktop Mac applications:

Wizard
Statistical analyzer

Magic Maps
Mapping and analysis

For OpenCL geeks:

For Erlang developers:

For Nginx administrators:

mod_circle_gif – Serve round corners with colors specified in the URL. The original Nginx module!
mod_zip – Assemble ZIP archives on the fly. Originally developed for box.net in Palo Alto.
nginx_upstream_hash – A hashing load balancer.
mod_rrd_graph – Link RRDtool's graphing facilities directly into Nginx.
nginx.vim – Syntax highlighting for the world's best text editor.

For MediaWiki administrators:

Software references for Nginx developers:

Software references for Erlang developers:

Chicago Boss: A Rough Introduction – A tutorial for the Erlang web framework.
The Joy of Erlang; Or, How To Ride A Toruk – A beginner's guide to Erlang.
Write a Template Compiler for Erlang – To my knowledge, no one has actually used this. But there's good stuff in here.

A/B testing articles:

NEW Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools – Free, visual statistical calculators.
Linear Regression For Fun And Profit – Machine-learning on the cheap.
How Not To Run An A/B Test – The hazards of repeated significance testing.

Applied math:

NEW Fixing a Hole in the F-Distribution – The story of a subtle bug.
How To Read an Unlabeled Sales Chart – Photoshop is no match for math
Bayesian Average Ratings – A different perspective on a classic problem.
How Not To Sort By Average Rating – We all make mistakes.
Rank Hotness With Newton's Law of Cooling – A simple equation for showing what's fresh on a website.
Holt-Winters Forecasting Applied to Poisson Processes in Real-Time (pdf) – Monitoring business metrics.

Random musings

NEW Predictive Analytics: What Is It Good For? – The shocking truth.
The Mathematical Hacker – Why hackers need math, now more than ever.
Big Data and the Price-Precision Curve – Significant digits have a significant cost.
Don't Kill Math – Comments on Bret Victor's scientific agenda.
In Praise of Small Data – Never use Big Data if Small Data will do.
The Feature Matrix – How many features should an app have?

Miscellaneous software notes: