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Index for Year 2009

  1. 2009-01-02: Favorite posts for 2008   🗪
  2. 2009-01-06: How many deleted sections do you write?   🗪
  3. 2009-01-08: Progress is continuous by nature   🗪
  4. 2009-01-09: The purpose of peer review   🗪
  5. 2009-01-10: Finish this sequence of equalities…   🗪
  6. 2009-01-12: How do I automatically lock myself out of Google Mail?   🗪
  7. 2009-01-13: Must a professor grade his students?   🗪
  8. 2009-01-15: The Claremont report on database research   🗪
  9. 2009-01-19: Turn your weaknesses into strengths   🗪
  10. 2009-01-20: Emotions killing your intellectual productivity   🗪
  11. 2009-01-22: What comes first, theory or experiments?   🗪
  12. 2009-01-22: Why I write bad papers (sometimes)   🗪
  13. 2009-01-30: How to ask for a scholarship   🗪
  14. 2009-01-30: Universities and the recession   🗪
  15. 2009-02-02: Advice to upcoming Ph.D.s   🗪
  16. 2009-02-02: One of the fathers of academic blogging is back   🗪
  17. 2009-02-03: Compressed bitmaps in Java   🗪
  18. 2009-02-05: Skip the Ph.D., go straight to research   🗪
  19. 2009-02-09: Honesty is charisma   🗪
  20. 2009-02-11: Academic applied research is… unapplicable   🗪
  21. 2009-02-13: What I have learned about life from war games   🗪
  22. 2009-02-17: Blogging is part of my day job   🗪
  23. 2009-02-19: Solving new and difficult theory problems… without looping into oblivion   🗪
  24. 2009-02-23: Canadian government is cutting science funding… in favor of business degrees!   🗪
  25. 2009-02-23: If you could only write one more research paper…   🗪
  26. 2009-02-24: How to fund research properly   🗪
  27. 2009-02-27: Are solo authors less cited?   🗪
  28. 2009-02-27: Students using podcasting and skipping class… do better!   🗪
  29. 2009-03-02: The missing research tool…   🗪
  30. 2009-03-04: On academic branding…   🗪
  31. 2009-03-11: Are your research papers telling original stories?   🗪
  32. 2009-03-16: Gardening and research   🗪
  33. 2009-03-20: Research productivity: some paths less travelled   🗪
  34. 2009-03-24: Social Software… toys or productivity?   🗪
  35. 2009-03-28: A taxonomy of Computer Science researchers   🗪
  36. 2009-04-08: Its official: the standard programming language for multidimensional databases is MDX   🗪
  37. 2009-04-08: Why are dynamic languages easier than static languages?   🗪
  38. 2009-04-10: e-Learning people: my top four   🗪
  39. 2009-04-16: The primary and secondary benefits of e-networking   🗪
  40. 2009-04-20: How to initiate collaboration in science… with anyone!   🗪
  41. 2009-04-21: Quantum databases: what are they good for?   🗪
  42. 2009-04-28: End the University as We Know It: My Commentary   🗪
  43. 2009-05-04: How peer review is supposed to help you!   🗪
  44. 2009-05-07: Research interests should be short-lived?   🗪
  45. 2009-05-18: Reinventing university education? Practical ideas…   🗪
  46. 2009-05-20: Promoted to full professor   🗪
  47. 2009-05-22: A researcher´s garden   🗪
  48. 2009-05-27: Make your research papers easy to skim   🗪
  49. 2009-05-29: Stop generating metadata and access the full content!   🗪
  50. 2009-06-02: The roots of plagiarism are deep   🗪
  51. 2009-06-09: Why senior researchers and managers should analyze data themselves…   🗪
  52. 2009-06-12: Death to the 3-hour exam   🗪
  53. 2009-06-12: Some shameful facts about myself   🗪
  54. 2009-06-17: Is Open Access publishing the solution? Really?   🗪
  55. 2009-06-23: Physical tools to improve research productivity   🗪
  56. 2009-06-26: Netflix competition is over?   🗪
  57. 2009-07-02: Is collaboration correlated with productivity?   🗪
  58. 2009-07-03: Column stores and row stores: should you care?   🗪
  59. 2009-07-06: Design a recommender system: they read your resume   🗪
  60. 2009-07-09: After Netflix? What next?   🗪
  61. 2009-07-15: Pedagogy, innovation and convenience   🗪
  62. 2009-07-17: A few things American academics should know   🗪
  63. 2009-07-17: Determinants of faculty research productivity   🗪
  64. 2009-07-17: What FriendFeed got wrong   🗪
  65. 2009-07-26: Netflix game gets exciting: BellKor´s Pragmatic Chaos is passed by The Ensemble   🗪
  66. 2009-08-01: Why I hardly ever blog about my ongoing research   🗪
  67. 2009-08-07: A review of “Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners”   🗪
  68. 2009-08-14: Picking a web page at random on the Web   🗪
  69. 2009-08-18: Do hash tables work in constant time?   🗪
  70. 2009-08-18: Scientists and their emotions   🗪
  71. 2009-08-19: A recipe for interesting Computer Science research papers   🗪
  72. 2009-08-24: Open Access: just for articles!   🗪
  73. 2009-08-24: Scifi book recommendations from my summer list: Reynolds, Hamilton and Weber´s Safehold   🗪
  74. 2009-08-26: To be smarter, ignore external rewards   🗪
  75. 2009-08-28: Trading compression for speed with vectorization   🗪
  76. 2009-08-31: Attributes of good research   🗪
  77. 2009-09-01: Why I am not publishing in PLoS One, yet   🗪
  78. 2009-09-02: Toward author-centric science   🗪
  79. 2009-09-04: Changing your perspective: horizontal, vertical and hybrid data models   🗪
  80. 2009-09-11: Where do the best mathematicians come from?   🗪
  81. 2009-09-14: How things change: Cheaters are Innovators   🗪
  82. 2009-09-15: The hard truth about research grants   🗪
  83. 2009-09-16: Relational databases: are they obsolete?   🗪
  84. 2009-09-24: The most important Theoretical Computer Science problem is inconsequential   🗪
  85. 2009-10-01: A Simplified Open Publishing Manifesto   🗪
  86. 2009-10-02: Sensible hashing of variable-length strings is impossible   🗪
  87. 2009-10-05: What is more fundamental: Physics or Computer Science?   🗪
  88. 2009-10-06: Getting a Ph.D. for the money?   🗪
  89. 2009-10-13: Working with industry helps researchers?   🗪
  90. 2009-10-19: How to win academic debates   🗪
  91. 2009-10-21: Open Access is the short-sighted fight   🗪
  92. 2009-10-26: Become independent of peer review   🗪
  93. 2009-10-28: The secret behind radical innovation   🗪
  94. 2009-10-29: Top 25 Canadian Universities by Research Funding (2009)   🗪
  95. 2009-11-09: Reading recommendation: Saturn´s children by Charles Stross   🗪
  96. 2009-11-11: Procrastination can be your friend   🗪
  97. 2009-11-12: Which should you pick: a bitmap index or a B-tree?   🗪
  98. 2009-11-13: More database compression means more speed? Right?   🗪
  99. 2009-11-24: Run-length encoding (part I)   🗪
  100. 2009-11-27: Run-length encoding (part 2)   🗪
  101. 2009-12-08: Why you should be a global warming skeptic   🗪
  102. 2009-12-09: Run-length encoding (part 3)   🗪
  103. 2009-12-17: Entropy-efficient Computing   🗪
  104. 2009-12-21: My best blog posts (2009)   🗪