With my new job as well as summer I have been pretty busy and obviously not posted in a while. However, one thing that I figured I would share with my fellow math and science friends is what I have been using for exploring at work. We are primarily a python shop doing lots of novel bioinformatics algorithms, and thus I am writing lots of simulations and exploratory programs to try out ideas. Before I would do most of this in the python interpreter, however lately I have switched to using IPython notebooks. In many ways this is similar to a Mathematica CDF document, where you can interlace text, code, and output.
This is extremely helpful for working with lots of math, where I can write notes about it above, and then a code implementation below. Note, the text can be formatted in LaTeX annotation, making math look nice. I also find that I am spending multiple days exploring concepts instead of just a few hours, and having something that is saved and I can go back to without writing a full program is very nice. So if you do lots of heavy algorithms development or math I would recommend checking it out.
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