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85 articles from 2013 · show all

December 2013

Week 10, The myriad virtues of Wavelet Trees

You, take a break

GoKarting is better than both sex _and_ bacon

Week 9: Life at low Reynold's number

The weirdest thing women say to me

Week 8: What a girl who plays rugby can teach organizational leaders

Week 7: Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

November 2013

After three years I finally have a phone number again

How I accidentally lost my social skills

Week 6, A query on confirmation

Getting lucky with Bitcoin

Week 5: Random Structures from LEGO Bricks and Analog Monte Carlo Procedures

LICEcap - best screen capture tool I've ever used

My old code is atrocious

Week 4: Tiny insects evolve anuclear neurons

Week 3: Of lion manes and human beards

October 2013

I published a book with a publisher. Here's what the journey was like.

Week 2: Level 1 of Super Mario Bros. is easy with lexicographic orderings and

I give up, Apple will never understand dual screen as well as Linux

Week 1: Turing's On computable numbers

About achieving polymorphism in Javascript

Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks

Bayesian modeling for the perfect pizza

September 2013

Adventures in homelessness

Lessons learned in a year of freelancing

My new favourite pomodoro app

Are map, reduce, and filter turing complete?

Why you should never write a book in .doc

This paragraph describes YOU perfectly

30 day fitness experiment with results