Papers & Books

Blogs and hot takes are fun but the good stuff hides in primary sources. I like to read computer science papers and books cover to cover and write about what holds up in production and what doesn't.

You get the insights without wading through 40 pages of LaTeX. And when a famous book doesn't survive contact with real code, I'll tell you that too.

Papers and books

October 2013

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

Week 1: Turing's On computable numbers

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

March 2013

The true difference between self publishing and using publishers

November 2012

Cool thing Thursday: Leanpub

March 2012

Why geeks think girls don't like them

September 2011

The quickreading

December 2009

Why the digital book revolution is stupid