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 2014 show all

July 2014

With 90k I could become a full-time author

April 2014

Week 20: Making ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc

Week 19: Relativity theory and time perception

March 2014

After five months, my effective hourly rate with a publisher is 3eur/hour

Week 18: the role of diet in periodontal disease

Week 17: What happens when you only eat meat for a year?

February 2014

Week 16: On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

Week 15: A tutorial on the expressiveness and universality of fold

January 2014

Week 14, heuristic evaluation of user interfaces

Week 13, constructing logic circuits in mammalian cells

Week 12: practical cold boot attacks that will make cryptonerds shit their pants

Week 11, Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers