31st December 2013, 6 min read

Index for Year 2013

2013-01-01: Reflecting on 2012 🗪
2013-01-02: Are CAPTCHAs a good idea? 🗪
2013-01-04: Experience is everything 🗪
2013-01-10: Governments are full of bugs 🗪
2013-01-11: Government regulations… as software 🗪
2013-01-14: How I learned mathematics (as a kid) 🗪
2013-01-14: XML for databases: a dead idea 🗪
2013-01-21: Is learning useless stuff good for you? 🗪
2013-02-06: How fast should your dynamic arrays grow? 🗪
2013-02-11: The big-O notation is a teaching tool 🗪
2013-02-18: We are publishing a lot more! How will we cope? 🗪
2013-02-20: What kind of researcher are you? 🗪
2013-02-21: Peer review without journals or conferences 🗪
2013-02-26: Does academic research cause economic growth? 🗪
2013-03-04: Where are the “big problem” jobs? 🗪
2013-03-05: Do NULL markers in SQL cause any harm? 🗪
2013-03-11: Current Daylight saving time policies are insane 🗪
2013-03-17: Is genetically engineered intelligence worth it? 🗪
2013-03-25: We are getting smarter as a matter of survival 🗪
2013-03-27: Advanced tips for dealing with your email inbox 🗪
2013-04-01: We need to get a lot better at imagining the future 🗪
2013-04-08: We are sentenced to permanent cognitive stretching 🗪
2013-04-15: Do we lose intelligence and creativity as we grow older? 🗪
2013-04-17: The irony of “we are the 99 percent” 🗪
2013-04-23: Share your software early: the Reinhart-Rogoff case 🗪
2013-04-24: You probably shouldn´t use a spreadsheet for important work 🗪
2013-04-26: P equal to NP and all that 🗪
2013-05-06: How to be effective at open source: by programmers, for programmers 🗪
2013-05-17: A criticism of computer science: models or modèles? 🗪
2013-05-30: Three questions about e-learning in college 🗪
2013-06-03: Why I never give straight answers 🗪
2013-06-12: Meetings are like sex 🗪
2013-06-17: Hashing and the Birthday paradox: a cautionary tale 🗪
2013-06-25: Staying sharp requires “intellectual gardening” 🗪
2013-07-08: Fast integer compression in Java 🗪
2013-07-10: Should computer scientists run experiments? 🗪
2013-07-11: Big-O notation and real-world performance 🗪
2013-07-26: Honey bees are not going extinct 🗪
2013-08-09: Privacy and the Internet: Is Facebook evil? 🗪
2013-08-16: Picking N distinct numbers at random: how to do it fast? 🗪
2013-08-28: Funding science: When bureaucrats get out of control 🗪
2013-09-12: To succeed, adopt the post-industrial view 🗪
2013-09-13: Are 8-bit or 16-bit counters faster than 32-bit counters? 🗪
2013-09-16: To solve hard problems, you need to use bricolage 🗪
2013-09-17: What do computer scientists know about performance? 🗪
2013-09-23: Why can´t you find a job with a Stanford computer science PhD? 🗪
2013-10-01: The written word took over the world 🗪
2013-10-04: What are the genuinely useful ideas in programming? 🗪
2013-10-17: Toward Star Trek economics 🗪
2013-10-25: We need more than spam filters: we need bona fide assistants! 🗪
2013-10-29: People who make you feel stupid… 🗪
2013-11-01: Infinite storage: we are almost there… 🗪
2013-11-07: Who plays nice? Who plays rough? 🗪
2013-11-12: Life is short: pick good ideas! 🗪
2013-11-18: Not all citations are equal: identifying key citations automatically 🗪
2013-11-28: Are regular folks doomed? 🗪
2013-12-04: If you are serious about climate change… stop attending conferences? 🗪
2013-12-09: Is programming as cool as basketball? 🗪
2013-12-13: Do we need academic copyright? Some historical perspective 🗪
2013-12-17: The day I subscribed to a dozen porn sites… 🗪
2013-12-23: Even faster bitmap decoding 🗪
2013-12-24: On human intelligence… a perspective from computer science 🗪
2013-12-26: Fastest way to compute the greatest common divisor 🗪
2013-12-30: When delegating… consider quality, maintenance and learning 🗪