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2014

How to learn efficientlyoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2014
MOOCs are closed platforms… and probably doomedoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2014
Optimizing polymorphic code in Javaoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2014
The Smartest Kids in the World: stories from Finland, Poland and South Koreaoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2014
Academia as an ‘anxiety machine’original ↗
5 Dec 2014
When bad ideas will not die: from classical AI to Linked Dataoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2014
Perfectionism is not the same as having high standardsoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2014
Why competitive people are often dumb and boringoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2014
The hubris of teachersoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2014
Forcefully boring young people is necessary…original ↗
3 Nov 2014
Bricolage by smart peopleoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2014
Having your cat declawed means having its fingers amputatedoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2014
Coffee is probably not killing your productivityoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2014
The week-end freedom testoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2014
Academia or industry?original ↗
16 Sept 2014
Referendums and sovereigntyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2014
Transemployment: creating jobs out of thin airoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2014
Paper books are the new vinyl recordsoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2014
Though unrefereed, arXiv has a better h-index than most journals…original ↗
27 Aug 2014
Expert performance and training: what we really knoworiginal ↗
21 Aug 2014
Should we train more people as programmers?original ↗
15 Aug 2014
A culture of envyoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2014
The insanity of research grant proposalsoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2014
Predicting your future performanceoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2014
Potentially bogus freelancing adviceoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2014
Extrinsic motivations are harmful…original ↗
9 Jul 2014
True success is more than winning a zero-sum gameoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2014
Toys on my desk (June 2014)original ↗
27 Jun 2014
Software performance is… counterintuitiveoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2014
Books on my desk (May 2014)original ↗
28 May 2014
You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work (I mean it)original ↗
24 May 2014
Why I still play video gamesoriginal ↗
20 May 2014
Decoding over 4 billion integers per second in Coriginal ↗
19 May 2014
Does moving to a better university make you a better researcher?original ↗
12 May 2014
Have Americans reached peak scholarship?original ↗
1 May 2014
Seth Roberts and researchoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2014
How are the bees doing?original ↗
29 Apr 2014
Do you realize that you are using random hashing?original ↗
24 Apr 2014
Science: ideals vs. realityoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2014
The financial value of open source softwareoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2014
Probabilities and the C++ standardoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2014
Don’t study latin if you want to become a better programmeroriginal ↗
4 Apr 2014
Technology sets the bar higheroriginal ↗
28 Mar 2014
Should you get a PhD?original ↗
17 Mar 2014
Elegance as a luxuryoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2014
Probabilities in computing: they may not mean what you think they meanoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2014
The myth of the scientist as a disinterested individualoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2014
Getting good performance in Go by rewriting parts in C?original ↗
14 Feb 2014
The rise to power of computer scientistsoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2014
Compression is never worth slowing down your code?original ↗
4 Feb 2014
To be smarter, try being crazier?original ↗
30 Jan 2014
Are C++ and Java declining?original ↗
21 Jan 2014
Why is the NSA grabbing all your private data?original ↗
11 Jan 2014
Why are there so many science PhDs?original ↗
7 Jan 2014
Life is sweeter than you think in 2014…original ↗
2 Jan 2014

2013

When delegating… consider quality, maintenance and learningoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2013
Fastest way to compute the greatest common divisororiginal ↗
26 Dec 2013
On human intelligence… a perspective from computer scienceoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2013
Even faster bitmap decodingoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2013
The day I subscribed to a dozen porn sites…original ↗
17 Dec 2013
Do we need academic copyright? Some historical perspectiveoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2013
Is programming as cool as basketball?original ↗
9 Dec 2013
If you are serious about climate change… stop attending conferences?original ↗
4 Dec 2013
Are regular folks doomed?original ↗
29 Nov 2013
Not all citations are equal: identifying key citations automaticallyoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2013
Life is short: pick good ideas!original ↗
12 Nov 2013
Who plays nice? Who plays rough?original ↗
7 Nov 2013
Infinite storage: we are almost there…original ↗
1 Nov 2013
People who make you feel stupid…original ↗
29 Oct 2013
We need more than spam filters: we need bona fide assistants!original ↗
25 Oct 2013
Toward Star Trek economicsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2013
What are the genuinely useful ideas in programming?original ↗
4 Oct 2013
The written word took over the worldoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2013
Why can’t you find a job with a Stanford computer science PhD?original ↗
23 Sept 2013
What do computer scientists know about performance?original ↗
17 Sept 2013
To solve hard problems, you need to use bricolageoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2013
Are 8-bit or 16-bit counters faster than 32-bit counters?original ↗
13 Sept 2013
To succeed, adopt the post-industrial vieworiginal ↗
12 Sept 2013
Funding science: When bureaucrats get out of controloriginal ↗
28 Aug 2013
Picking N distinct numbers at random: how to do it fast?original ↗
16 Aug 2013
Privacy and the Internet: Is Facebook evil?original ↗
9 Aug 2013
Honey bees are not going extinctoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2013
Big-O notation and real-world performanceoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2013
Should computer scientists run experiments?original ↗
10 Jul 2013
Fast integer compression in Javaoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2013
Staying sharp requires “intellectual gardening”original ↗
25 Jun 2013
Hashing and the Birthday paradox: a cautionary taleoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2013
Meetings are like sexoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2013
Why I never give straight answersoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2013
Three questions about e-learning in collegeoriginal ↗
30 May 2013
A criticism of computer science: models or modèles?original ↗
17 May 2013
How to be effective at open source: by programmers, for programmersoriginal ↗
6 May 2013
P equal to NP and all thatoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2013
You probably shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important workoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2013
Share your software early: the Reinhart-Rogoff caseoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2013
The irony of “we are the 99 percent”original ↗
17 Apr 2013
Do we lose intelligence and creativity as we grow older?original ↗
15 Apr 2013
We are sentenced to permanent cognitive stretchingoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2013
We need to get a lot better at imagining the futureoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2013
Advanced tips for dealing with your email inboxoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2013
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