mistertim

London, UK (or Remote for the right candidate, with a UK work visa) Likely Ltd are looking for developers to work on some interesting social media analytics problems. I'm leaving at the end of the month, but it's a great place to work - at the moment we need people with experience in any or all of: Ruby, Erlang, Java, Hadoop (Mapreduce and Hbase). If you have any machine learning or statistical computing skills that'd be a definite bonus. If you're iterested, please send your details to Henry, our CTO, at henry@likely.co Thanks!

I'm in a similar situation - My last academic exposure to maths was at GCSE level (age 16 for non-UK people), and I've recently attempted to rectify that. I've just begun a degree in mathematics through http://www.open.ac.uk - The first module has been useful for me but maybe less so if you've done an A-level, but it looks like it progresses onto some useful stuff. I can also highly recommend 'Concrete Mathematics' - It's been really useful for filling in some context around the (first module) OU course - typically we're taught practical applications of mathematics that skip over the proofs and derivations - and CM is great at filling in some of the rigour that the OU misses out.

Also, you might want to check out the wikibooks High School Mathematics Extensions textbook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/High_School_Mathematics_Extensi... - there's a whole lot of rigarous but accessible introductions to some pertinent mathematical concepts. Marcus du Sautoy's 'The Music of the Primes' is also great as a bit of light reading to give you a sense of the history (and some very basic mathematical concepts) of the subject.

Cheers,

Tim