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Dybvig's compiler course was exemplary. Say what you may about Scheme, you learned so much more in those classes. His Scheme Programming Language book is highly recommended. Especi…

Great link. Just ran Ilya's first query--median time to first render--against September Pages: "median": "2389", "seventy_fifth": "3543", "ninetieth": "5191" How did the Internet p…

Translate IDF to "how uncommon is this word in the corpus?" TF-IDF is acronym soup, but mathematically simple: IDF is a scalar applied to a term's frequency. And in the comparison,…

Yes, we have this in memory. And at the highest level, extremely important. The more important lesson is to analyze the opening position for the plans and thematic patterns at cruc…

They've drawn each game up till this win by Gelfand. Beautiful mate at the end: Anand, the world champion, playing black, marched a pawn across the board, but Gelfand will checkmat…

Agree completely. I've attended both types. Even though, oddly, some state school campuses are being saved by online programs. The free online education programs remind me of the i…

I'd say your circle of friends and programming languages researchers are the best part of universities. The fun part of exploring new ideas happens far more often at a university t…

On the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron, he explains how his terrible buying habits with an Amex black card, including a new Mercedes, a sojourn at the Ritz, and a brass instrument, led t…

This programmer design fallacy got started by the Mormon church (not kidding): http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=169163 Gregg "Skip" Bailey, Manager of Human Factors, The Churc…

As an addendum, the final round of the current world championship candidates matches are starting. See http://kazan2011.fide.com/ or This Week In Chess http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/…

At the moment, it's being put to the test: British hedge fund invests 25 million pounds for IU professor’s Twitter research http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=80469