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According to a speech given in 2016 by Dr. Michael Bracken, an epidemiologist from Yale University, as much as 87.5% of biomedical research is wasted or inefficient. To his point, …

People make a lot of noise about the missing function keys. But the keys that I miss the most on my 2018 Macbook Pro are the "E" and "SHIFT" keys.

"If I were misusing a word." Just trying to help ;-)

What we call "Computer Science" is the discrete analogue of differential equations. It has absolutely nothing to do with software engineering. CS programs don't teach software engi…

Although it's a pleasant read, it doesn't take into account opportunity cost. Everything I do every day requires me not to do something else. There are valuable jobs that aren't ur…

I love the way they used color and plain English to describe that function. It would be awesome if a general app for this sort of color coded simple translation were available to h…

When a publication like The Atlantic Monthly, one of the most venerable and critically acclaimed bastions of the English language, literature, and culture, refers to them as "Legos…

A good roadmap for a new distributed web should be broken down by OSI model layer, showing what protocols and technologies exist that need to be replaced, what levels of the OSI mo…

The economic motivations that drive FOSS development haven't really been done justice in the peer-reviewed literature on the subject. We used to say "Money, Glory, and Fun" were th…

Circa 2009, while attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota, I was a student of Dr. Nick Hopper, whose CS research team were intensely focused on ways to deanonymize…

Freedom to assemble doesn't guarantee access to private venues. Contrary to intuition, all spaces on the Internet are private spaces.

"A Source Book in Mathematics" by David Eugene Smith. ISBN 0486646904. Short description: The writings of Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Riemann, Bernoulli, and others in a comprehensive…

Because there's no 'National wants a 24" Asus 1ms thin-framed LED gaming monitor, Logitech gaming controller, 5.1 surround audio, and ATS Acoustic Foam Corner Base Traps Forecastin…

Of course they were playing word games. Could the mixture of lawyers and cryptography possibly yield anything else?

Second step is total media silence for a few news cycles.

Of course, you're right about this. I think the comparison detracted from my point, and it was insensitive to people for whom cancer is not a metaphor. So, really it failed on two …

"Using token leaky buckets for congestion feedback control in packets switched networks with guaranteed boundedness of buffer queues": http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/prost/proce…

At the end of each day, in a University town, you might sit down to enjoy a meal or a cup of coffee at a local café, and strike up a conversation with a complete stranger. The two …

I sincerely recommend working at a large University as an alternative to this. Instead of one large company it is a constellation of large companies. They are almost always despera…

"No Secrets, Anywhere"

I paid for my undergraduate education (97-03) by dropping out to work as a full time consultant. Because I did this twice, it took several extra years to graduate. For grad school,…

Reading through many of the responses, they're almost all phrased in terms of "X does Y better than Z" comparisons, directly ignoring your amusing and insightful comment. At this p…

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 Boom. Problem solved.

Nothing in his editorial comes as a surprise. David Brooks remains the same neoconservative apologist that he was in the spring of 2003, when he was beating the war drums for Presi…