There's insane amounts of great stuff hidden in the various nooks and crannies of the NIST website. Some of my other favorites:

Engineering Statistics Handbook http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm

Digital Library of Mathematical Functions http://dlmf.nist.gov/

The Quantum Algorithm Zoo http://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/

Agreed on the Engineering Statistics Handbook, especially Section 5 on Process Improvement, which contains a decent (and free) treatment of Design of Experiments. A lot of the earlier sections are ok but not as sharply interesting, but their DoE stuff is quite good.

I was just reading this section yesterday!

Haha, there is a definition of Marlena:

Definition: A wonderful wife. Every man should have such an incredible wife. We got married in 1976, too, and life's only gotten better.

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads//HTML/marlena.html

a two-minute css-pivot to make homepage a little easier on the eyes.

http://www.csspivot.com/az9fT

This is awesome. Finally a solution for all those white on black blogs.

I disagree. Browser side user-css files are the solution to this 'problem' (honestly, my main gripe is low contrast, mainly the gray on white that is the last fashion these days)

opera is the only one that got it right. easy to write the css in a way it works for most sites, and a very convenient way to turn it on/off. too bad opera is ridden with bugs since 8.5 and so i gave up.

I'm on Firefox 3.6 and this did nothing to the page's appearance.

Don't know what's wrong there.

Anyways, it's just a width, line-height, font changes. Just to show a little bit of CSS could have helped and is just for the homepage. Could make a custom css for it, if you want. The site is immensely useful, though.

also, here's a screenshot if you want to compare. http://i.imgur.com/fnu8L.png. again, nothing big though :)

This dictionary looks like it's the index of The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...

I was thinking the same thing. The catalog of algorithms at the end of the book is indispensable.

This site does seem to cover a much broader range of algorithms though.

So, how many of these algorithms do you think are covered by litigatable software patents?

Nothing for Rete? Come on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

"Don't use this to cheat" - how quaint. There was once a time when there was an economics of scarcity in information...

If you're interested in glossaries of this type, there's a great one (with pictures!) in the back of The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena.

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/...

Interesting, Would be great if there were some sort of tag/taglike system for the properties/usages.