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Index for Year 2008

  1. 2008-01-02: In 2008, work fewer hours   🗪
  2. 2008-01-03: Workout to improve… intellectual productivity?   🗪
  3. 2008-01-06: Great scholars seek simplicity   🗪
  4. 2008-01-07: Do researchers keep a plan?   🗪
  5. 2008-01-10: Death of the software application   🗪
  6. 2008-01-10: Science papers per country   🗪
  7. 2008-01-14: Coping with time taxes   🗪
  8. 2008-01-15: Solid-state drives: when external memory becomes as fast as internal memory   🗪
  9. 2008-01-19: Database indexes are less useful than you think   🗪
  10. 2008-01-21: My top blog posts in 2007   🗪
  11. 2008-01-21: Research questions about… tag clouds?   🗪
  12. 2008-01-22: Who should be buying expensive commercial database systems?   🗪
  13. 2008-01-25: On the sum of power laws   🗪
  14. 2008-01-25: What is an effective social network?   🗪
  15. 2008-01-26: Tracking call for papers… with a wiki?   🗪
  16. 2008-01-28: A first draft of HTML 5… toward a new HTML?   🗪
  17. 2008-01-28: The network is the bottleneck?   🗪
  18. 2008-01-29: Closed-source software is the source of innovation?   🗪
  19. 2008-01-30: Chaining CAPTCHAs for fun and profit?   🗪
  20. 2008-02-02: Random Write Performance in Solid-State Drives   🗪
  21. 2008-02-06: How many users are needed for an efficient collaborative filtering system?   🗪
  22. 2008-02-08: No shortage of Information Technology Workers   🗪
  23. 2008-02-12: Yahoo! Research jobs in Montreal   🗪
  24. 2008-02-13: External-Memory Shuffles?   🗪
  25. 2008-02-13: What is a reusable research result?   🗪
  26. 2008-02-18: Recommending Journal Articles in a Scientific Digital Library   🗪
  27. 2008-02-21: When a terabyte is small   🗪
  28. 2008-02-22: Should we fear Google?   🗪
  29. 2008-02-27: Online teaching is the future?   🗪
  30. 2008-02-27: Publish or Perish: the Tool   🗪
  31. 2008-02-29: Research productivity versus funding received   🗪
  32. 2008-03-04: Information is blood, coverage is intelligence   🗪
  33. 2008-03-04: What are conferences good for?   🗪
  34. 2008-03-05: Spam journals or open journals?   🗪
  35. 2008-03-07: Anchoring effect in collaborative filtering   🗪
  36. 2008-03-07: Who needs your lectures?   🗪
  37. 2008-03-09: What you can ask of a researcher in an email   🗪
  38. 2008-03-13: The 2 myths getting students into ivy-league schools   🗪
  39. 2008-03-13: Yahoo! to exploit more metadata   🗪
  40. 2008-03-14: The lonely researcher: a loser?   🗪
  41. 2008-03-17: What are your two biggest accomplishments?   🗪
  42. 2008-03-18: Why is there no new Einstein?   🗪
  43. 2008-03-19: Even a tiny amount of beer makes you less productive?   🗪
  44. 2008-03-21: Large groups in science   🗪
  45. 2008-03-22: Reputation still holds in education… for how long?   🗪
  46. 2008-03-25: Google has broken my roman numeral captcha   🗪
  47. 2008-03-25: Multicore programming? Yawn!   🗪
  48. 2008-03-27: Blogging is and will remain a fringe effect in science?   🗪
  49. 2008-03-31: How to solve hard problems   🗪
  50. 2008-04-01: Programming with lego bricks and code completion   🗪
  51. 2008-04-02: The Microsoft-ISO debacle   🗪
  52. 2008-04-03: Do not invest in Blu-ray technology?   🗪
  53. 2008-04-04: Everything is pseudocode   🗪
  54. 2008-04-04: The negative myths about academic blogging   🗪
  55. 2008-04-05: The need to do great things   🗪
  56. 2008-04-07: Researcher or marketing drone?   🗪
  57. 2008-04-07: The upcoming genetic divide?   🗪
  58. 2008-04-09: Automatic domain name generation?   🗪
  59. 2008-04-11: Do you share and index your history?   🗪
  60. 2008-04-15: Why aren´t there more scientific breakthroughs?   🗪
  61. 2008-04-17: What is academic blogging about?   🗪
  62. 2008-04-18: The “e” prefix is obselete   🗪
  63. 2008-04-21: Collaboration in Science: Three models   🗪
  64. 2008-04-22: Google stole my marker   🗪
  65. 2008-04-22: Writing alone: benefits and pitfalls   🗪
  66. 2008-04-23: Rigor or relevance: choose one   🗪
  67. 2008-04-25: Job offer: education specialist   🗪
  68. 2008-04-28: The truth will make you relevant   🗪
  69. 2008-04-30: Why you get annoying as you grow older   🗪
  70. 2008-05-01: Seeking an efficient algorithm to group identical values   🗪
  71. 2008-05-01: Week-old cappucinos taste bad   🗪
  72. 2008-05-06: Graph diameter versus maximum node degree   🗪
  73. 2008-05-06: There is only one platform: the Web   🗪
  74. 2008-05-07: The one thing I learned about gardening this year   🗪
  75. 2008-05-08: Colorful professors   🗪
  76. 2008-05-09: Better than Safari: Shiira   🗪
  77. 2008-05-13: Black tulips   🗪
  78. 2008-05-13: The art of paper review   🗪
  79. 2008-05-16: Why academia is so conservative: academic freedom   🗪
  80. 2008-05-20: Patience, persistence, perseverance   🗪
  81. 2008-05-26: Are you descriptive or predictive?   🗪
  82. 2008-05-26: If your ssh connection times out when you ask for the content of a directory…   🗪
  83. 2008-05-26: My spam filter is asocial   🗪
  84. 2008-05-29: Pictures from paradise   🗪
  85. 2008-06-02: Research stamina   🗪
  86. 2008-06-03: A short review of Collective Intelligence in Action   🗪
  87. 2008-06-03: The ten-minute rule for presentations   🗪
  88. 2008-06-05: Why pure theory is wasteful   🗪
  89. 2008-06-09: Grounded versus Pure Theory   🗪
  90. 2008-06-10: From Graph Drawing to Tag-Cloud drawing?   🗪
  91. 2008-06-11: Distractions make you dumb   🗪
  92. 2008-06-11: The Purity Scale in Science   🗪
  93. 2008-06-12: Proof that I am a stubborn bastard   🗪
  94. 2008-06-16: Blogs make meetings feel dull   🗪
  95. 2008-06-18: Too much stress   🗪
  96. 2008-06-19: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education   🗪
  97. 2008-06-23: Lowly tasks you should do   🗪
  98. 2008-06-24: Good research: invent new problems or explain mysteries   🗪
  99. 2008-07-04: Backing up your Mac on an external disk   🗪
  100. 2008-07-04: Classifying research projects by depth   🗪
  101. 2008-07-07: I still don´t have the multiplication tables memorized   🗪
  102. 2008-07-07: Sorting 1 terabyte in 209 seconds   🗪
  103. 2008-07-10: A small graph-theory puzzle   🗪
  104. 2008-07-11: Do you think because you write, or write because you think?   🗪
  105. 2008-07-21: Google makes me smarter   🗪
  106. 2008-07-21: We need a more negative culture   🗪
  107. 2008-07-23: Encouraging diversity in science   🗪
  108. 2008-07-28: Coverage of the cuil search engine   🗪
  109. 2008-07-28: Updating your model as a researcher   🗪
  110. 2008-07-29: Some myths about online teaching   🗪
  111. 2008-07-30: Cool software design insight #1   🗪
  112. 2008-07-31: Given up on Eclipse, now with NetBeans   🗪
  113. 2008-07-31: Scientific productivity tips from Hartley and Branthwaite   🗪
  114. 2008-08-01: A good word for Nintendo repair services   🗪
  115. 2008-08-03: Cool software design insight #2   🗪
  116. 2008-08-12: Cool software design insight #3   🗪
  117. 2008-08-12: Submit your papers where they are likely to be accepted   🗪
  118. 2008-08-18: Back from vacations   🗪
  119. 2008-08-19: The secret to intellectual productivity   🗪
  120. 2008-08-21: Peer review is an honor-based system   🗪
  121. 2008-08-21: Quick CSS quiz   🗪
  122. 2008-08-22: Cool software design insight #4   🗪
  123. 2008-08-22: How to select even or odd rows in a table using CSS 3   🗪
  124. 2008-08-25: If you claim high scalability…   🗪
  125. 2008-08-25: Proceedings of the Large-Scale Recommender Systems workshop   🗪
  126. 2008-08-25: The insane world of academic publishing   🗪
  127. 2008-09-04: My blog got hacked   🗪
  128. 2008-09-05: Speed up Python without effort using generator expressions   🗪
  129. 2008-09-06: Cool software design insight #5   🗪
  130. 2008-09-08: Please auto-hide content   🗪
  131. 2008-09-08: Preparing your sons for the bad guys   🗪
  132. 2008-09-09: Inject chaos in your life   🗪
  133. 2008-09-11: From online courses to… automated teaching   🗪
  134. 2008-09-15: Canadian Computer Science professor fired for being into bondage   🗪
  135. 2008-09-19: MacOS open´s under Linux   🗪
  136. 2008-09-19: Why I am sometimes rude   🗪
  137. 2008-09-22: From freedom to intelligence   🗪
  138. 2008-09-25: A little brain teaser…   🗪
  139. 2008-09-25: Marketing to scientists… on YouTube?   🗪
  140. 2008-09-29: Students want online learning   🗪
  141. 2008-09-30: Computer Science Research does not care about your System   🗪
  142. 2008-10-01: Google won´t help your blog   🗪
  143. 2008-10-07: What 20 years in academia taught me about my finances   🗪
  144. 2008-10-08: Need help protecting my blog   🗪
  145. 2008-10-10: Peer review is still declining?   🗪
  146. 2008-10-13: Cool software design insight #6   🗪
  147. 2008-10-13: My school is not going out of business   🗪
  148. 2008-10-17: How do you know that you are right?   🗪
  149. 2008-10-18: Blogging is networking   🗪
  150. 2008-10-24: The problem with unidimensional research   🗪
  151. 2008-10-27: The future of innovation is in software   🗪
  152. 2008-10-28: When in doubts, prefer unimpressive negative results   🗪
  153. 2008-10-30: How I built my Web presence as a researcher…   🗪
  154. 2008-10-31: A no free lunch theorem for database indexes?   🗪
  155. 2008-11-03: Google is fighting back against cars: Google transit   🗪
  156. 2008-11-03: Staying organized without planning   🗪
  157. 2008-11-04: Going back to the basics   🗪
  158. 2008-11-05: Selecting emails per language   🗪
  159. 2008-11-06: DUAT: Do not use acronyms in titles   🗪
  160. 2008-11-06: JOLAP is dead, OLAP4J lives?   🗪
  161. 2008-11-07: Understanding what makes database indexes work   🗪
  162. 2008-11-11: Leaves in the web of knowledge   🗪
  163. 2008-11-11: To improve your indexes: sort your tables!   🗪
  164. 2008-11-14: Do not trust financial experts   🗪
  165. 2008-11-14: Measuring the diversity of recommended lists, at last   🗪
  166. 2008-11-14: So, you think academic peer review works?   🗪
  167. 2008-11-14: Toward the Commoditization of Natural Language Processing   🗪
  168. 2008-11-17: Full text search in SQL with LuSql   🗪
  169. 2008-11-17: SciFi book review: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson   🗪
  170. 2008-11-17: The most active blogs I follow…   🗪
  171. 2008-11-18: Is what I do technical?   🗪
  172. 2008-11-19: Why am I not working on world hunger?   🗪
  173. 2008-11-21: Recommender systems: where are we headed?   🗪
  174. 2008-11-21: Tim Bray on solving the economic crisis   🗪
  175. 2008-11-24: Diversity in recommender systems: sketch of a bibliography   🗪
  176. 2008-11-27: Innovative ideas are indistinguishable from crackpot ones   🗪
  177. 2008-11-28: Social Networking for Scientists: Mendeley   🗪
  178. 2008-11-30: Are you really running out of time?   🗪
  179. 2008-12-04: Native XML databases: have they taken the world over yet?   🗪
  180. 2008-12-08: Parsing text files is CPU bound   🗪
  181. 2008-12-12: The next wave in IT: employee monitoring   🗪
  182. 2008-12-15: Why is the free market letting us down?   🗪
  183. 2008-12-16: Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case   🗪
  184. 2008-12-16: The Synthese Recommender System   🗪
  185. 2008-12-17: Fast argmax in Python   🗪
  186. 2008-12-19: Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case (Update 1)   🗪
  187. 2008-12-19: Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case (Update 2)   🗪
  188. 2008-12-23: Where do presidents and prime ministers go to school?   🗪
  189. 2008-12-25: My low-tech research tools   🗪
  190. 2008-12-25: My (short) activity report for 2008   🗪
  191. 2008-12-27: We never invent anything new, yet progress is made!   🗪
  192. 2008-12-29: Grabbing attention or building a reputation?   🗪
  193. 2008-12-31: What makes recommender systems work?   🗪
  194. 2008-12-31: Where are the academic podcasts?   🗪