31st December 2015, 5 min read

Index for Year 2015

1. 2015-01-07: Theory lags practice   🗪
2. 2015-01-08: Fast unary decoding   🗪
3. 2015-01-14: Knauff and Nejasmic recommend banning LaTeX   🗪
4. 2015-02-02: How do you become an expert?   🗪
5. 2015-02-03: Your brain and its software patches   🗪
6. 2015-02-11: Lectures are the lazy person´s approach to education   🗪
7. 2015-02-18: Large well-funded laboratories…   🗪
8. 2015-02-25: The hopeless ones become college professors   🗪
9. 2015-03-09: The mathematics we teach our kids…   🗪
10. 2015-03-10: On rote memorization and antiquated skills   🗪
11. 2015-03-16: Other useless school trivia: the quadratic formula   🗪
12. 2015-03-24: Good ideas are overrated   🗪
13. 2015-03-25: Accelerating intersections with SIMD instructions   🗪
14. 2015-04-06: Evil abbreviations in programming languages   🗪
15. 2015-04-08: Was life better in the 1970s?   🗪
16. 2015-04-20: To be creative, work alone   🗪
17. 2015-04-27: Basic email skills   🗪
18. 2015-05-05: Do better written papers get more citations?   🗪
19. 2015-05-08: Old people are not very sharp, are they?   🗪
20. 2015-05-19: Putting the evil academic publishers in perspective   🗪
21. 2015-05-25: Are you a techno-optimist? (A review of Tomorrowland)   🗪
22. 2015-06-09: Aging is a software bug   🗪
23. 2015-06-26: The case for techno-optimism   🗪
24. 2015-07-03: Would an artificial intelligence “grow old”?   🗪
25. 2015-07-10: Simple techniques to improve your health in 2015   🗪
26. 2015-07-17: Going beyond our limitations   🗪
27. 2015-07-21: We need to go beyond the web   🗪
28. 2015-07-27: What ten years teaching a technical topic in college taught me…   🗪
29. 2015-08-03: Coping with accelerating progress: no more five-year plan   🗪
30. 2015-08-04: My predictions for 2040   🗪
31. 2015-08-10: The exponential cost of progress   🗪
32. 2015-08-14: The dystopia you should fear   🗪
33. 2015-08-19: Computing in 2025… what can we expect?   🗪
34. 2015-08-31: What a technology geek sees when traveling abroad   🗪
35. 2015-09-04: Revisiting Vernor Vinge´s “predictions” for 2025   🗪
36. 2015-09-11: Hackers vs. Academics: who is responsible for progress?   🗪
37. 2015-09-14: The hacker culture is winning   🗪
38. 2015-09-23: The “consensus” is sometimes wrong   🗪
39. 2015-09-28: Could big data and wearables help the fight against diseases?   🗪
40. 2015-10-05: Foolish enough to leave important tasks to a mere human brain?   🗪
41. 2015-10-05: JavaScript and fast data structures: some initial experiments   🗪
42. 2015-10-09: Predicting the near future is a crazy, impossible game   🗪
43. 2015-10-09: Secular stagnation: we are trimming down   🗪
44. 2015-10-13: Where are all the search trees?   🗪
45. 2015-10-15: On the memory usage of maps in Java   🗪
46. 2015-10-22: Faster hashing without effort   🗪
47. 2015-10-26: Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications   🗪
48. 2015-11-02: Is artificial intelligence going to wipe us out in 30 years?   🗪
49. 2015-11-05: Identifying influential citations: it works live today!   🗪
50. 2015-11-23: Is peer review slowing down science and technology?   🗪
51. 2015-11-27: Being ever more productive… is a duty   🗪
52. 2015-12-01: The mysterious aging of astronauts   🗪
53. 2015-12-07: Are we really testing an anti-aging pill? And what does it mean?   🗪
54. 2015-12-15: Amazing technologies from the year 2015…   🗪
55. 2015-12-21: The virtuous circle of fantasy   🗪
56. 2015-12-22: The courage to face what we do not understand   🗪
57. 2015-12-24: Your software should follow your hardware: the CLHash example   🗪
58. 2015-12-28: My most popular posts in 2015… (part I)   🗪
59. 2015-12-30: My most popular posts in 2015 (part II)   🗪