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Index for Year 2014

  1. 2014-01-02: Life is sweeter than you think in 2014…   🗪
  2. 2014-01-07: Why are there so many science PhDs?   🗪
  3. 2014-01-11: Why is the NSA grabbing all your private data?   🗪
  4. 2014-01-21: Are C++ and Java declining?   🗪
  5. 2014-01-30: To be smarter, try being crazier?   🗪
  6. 2014-02-03: Compression is never worth slowing down your code?   🗪
  7. 2014-02-07: The rise to power of computer scientists   🗪
  8. 2014-02-14: Getting good performance in Go by rewriting parts in C?   🗪
  9. 2014-02-21: The myth of the scientist as a disinterested individual   🗪
  10. 2014-02-28: Probabilities in computing: they may not mean what you think they mean   🗪
  11. 2014-03-10: Elegance as a luxury   🗪
  12. 2014-03-17: Should you get a PhD?   🗪
  13. 2014-03-28: Technology sets the bar higher   🗪
  14. 2014-04-04: Don´t study latin if you want to become a better programmer   🗪
  15. 2014-04-11: Probabilities and the C++ standard   🗪
  16. 2014-04-14: Science: ideals vs. reality   🗪
  17. 2014-04-14: The financial value of open source software   🗪
  18. 2014-04-23: Do you realize that you are using random hashing?   🗪
  19. 2014-04-29: How are the bees doing?   🗪
  20. 2014-04-30: Seth Roberts and research   🗪
  21. 2014-05-01: Have Americans reached peak scholarship?   🗪
  22. 2014-05-12: Does moving to a better university make you a better researcher?   🗪
  23. 2014-05-19: Decoding over 4 billion integers per second in C   🗪
  24. 2014-05-20: Why I still play video games   🗪
  25. 2014-05-23: You shouldn´t use a spreadsheet for important work (I mean it)   🗪
  26. 2014-05-28: Books on my desk (May 2014)   🗪
  27. 2014-06-06: Software performance is… counterintuitive   🗪
  28. 2014-06-27: Toys on my desk (June 2014)   🗪
  29. 2014-07-07: True success is more than winning a zero-sum game   🗪
  30. 2014-07-09: Extrinsic motivations are harmful…   🗪
  31. 2014-07-22: Potentially bogus freelancing advice   🗪
  32. 2014-07-30: Predicting your future performance   🗪
  33. 2014-08-01: The insanity of research grant proposals   🗪
  34. 2014-08-11: A culture of envy   🗪
  35. 2014-08-15: Should we train more people as programmers?   🗪
  36. 2014-08-21: Expert performance and training: what we really know   🗪
  37. 2014-08-27: Though unrefereed, arXiv has a better h-index than most journals…   🗪
  38. 2014-09-02: Paper books are the new vinyl records   🗪
  39. 2014-09-03: Transemployment: creating jobs out of thin air   🗪
  40. 2014-09-10: Referendums and sovereignty   🗪
  41. 2014-09-15: Academia or industry?   🗪
  42. 2014-09-17: The week-end freedom test   🗪
  43. 2014-10-03: Coffee is probably not killing your productivity   🗪
  44. 2014-10-06: Having your cat declawed means having its fingers amputated   🗪
  45. 2014-10-13: Bricolage by smart people   🗪
  46. 2014-11-03: Forcefully boring young people is necessary…   🗪
  47. 2014-11-11: The hubris of teachers   🗪
  48. 2014-11-17: Why competitive people are often dumb and boring   🗪
  49. 2014-11-19: Perfectionism is not the same as having high standards   🗪
  50. 2014-12-02: When bad ideas will not die: from classical AI to Linked Data   🗪
  51. 2014-12-05: Academia as an `anxiety machine´   🗪
  52. 2014-12-10: The Smartest Kids in the World: stories from Finland, Poland and South Korea   🗪
  53. 2014-12-17: Optimizing polymorphic code in Java   🗪
  54. 2014-12-24: MOOCs are closed platforms… and probably doomed   🗪
  55. 2014-12-30: How to learn efficiently   🗪