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by ehudla 10y ago
The MIT book? No, it's just a fun book about MIT culture, the analysis doesn't run very deep IIRC.
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by ehudla 10y ago
There's a quote I love from the book "The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT": Freshman double E's take six double oh one (a.k.a. six double no fun) to learn to program in LISP... This is also where they begin to le
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A roadmap for next-generation sequencing informatics – Science TM(stm.sciencemag.org)
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by ehudla 10y ago
The other two talks from that repository are also interesting: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
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Wearing the hair shirt: a retrospective on Haskell (2003) [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
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Simon Peyton Jones: Composing contracts: an adventure in financial engineering(research.microsoft.com)
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Sorry, Uber. Customer Service Ratings Cannot Replace Managers(fortune.com)
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by ehudla 11y ago
- Where's my car?! - Discontinued. It drove itself back to us last night.
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by ehudla 11y ago
Related article at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11429829
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Google's Nest closing smart-home company Revolv, bricking devices – BI(uk.businessinsider.com)
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by ehudla 11y ago
Has the distinction between basic and applied research become irrelevant?
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If 100 People Lived on Earth ||(youtube.com)
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by ehudla 11y ago
This is a precursor: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61047/
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Gone fishing in a fluid trial(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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The Stanford School of Ancient History – New Rambler Review(newramblerreview.com)
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Next Generation Social Science – GRANTS.GOV(grants.gov)
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Politics by numbers(economist.com)
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A new kind of weather(economist.com)
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The signal and the noise(economist.com)
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by ehudla 11y ago
Again, the passing of one of CS heroes. /Computers and Intractability/ was one of the first CS books I bought. The anecdote they open with, about coming to your boss claiming "I can't find an efficient algorithm, I guess
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In Memoriam: David S. Johnson(cacm.acm.org)
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by ehudla 11y ago
Again, the passing of one of CS heroes. /Computers and Intractability/ was one of the first CS books I bought. The anecdote they open with, about coming to your boss claiming "I can't find an efficient algorithm, I guess
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Computational Complexity: David Johnson (1945-2016)(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
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Makefiles for Writing, Data Analysis, OCR, and Converting Shapefiles(lincolnmullen.com)
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Researchers overturn landmark study on replicability of psychological science(sciencedaily.com)
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by ehudla 11y ago
As the saying goes, good luck with that. Indeed with strict discipline you can use semantic styles in Word and other tools. People typically don't and the default behavior in many cases is annoying or leads to problems (copying style,
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Git for philosophers(github.com)
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Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text Using Pandoc and Markdown(programminghistorian.org)
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by ehudla 11y ago
I summarize this to my students using two laws and two postulates. Two laws: (1) For long documents, especially if they require citations, bibliographies, mathematical notation, etc. – Word is a poor choice. (2) For documents that tak
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by ehudla 11y ago
If you write in org and want to export through pandoc there's org-pandoc https://github.com/robtillotson/org-pandoc .

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