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