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

12 articles from 2013 show all

December 2013

Week 10, The myriad virtues of Wavelet Trees

Week 9: Life at low Reynold's number

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

Week 6, A query on confirmation

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

Week 4: Tiny insects evolve anuclear neurons

Week 3: Of lion manes and human beards

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