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Helping a stranger (and why you should understand NP-complete)
28 Oct 2013
Earlier this year I helped out a random Hacker News commenter. This was covered in a recent blog post where…
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Computer Science in Plain English
18 Sep 2013
Computer science is a subject dear to my heart and I feel constantly aggrieved by how misunderstood and misreported the…
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Fantasy Football Team Selector 2013-14
3 Aug 2013
It’s that time of year again. Here is the updated Excel Spreadsheet for helping you choose a great Fantasy Football…
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The Future of Education
27 Jul 2013
Education is changing in a big way. Whether you’re still in the education system or someday going to have children…
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Expert or Generalist?
24 Jun 2013
“My Name is Karl, Ich Bin Expert” I don’t quote Karl Hungus lightly. When I began this blog back…
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Curiosity Killed The Productivity
9 May 2013
“Where is that drip coming from?” Recently while in the staff kitchen, waiting a few minutes for my mug…
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Designing your wedding ring with 13 year old code
13 Apr 2013
So often when faced with a programming task, you never truly solve the required problem from scratch. To be completely…
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XML Serialisation
11 Mar 2013
Recently at work I was confronted by a problem requiring data persistance outside of a database – in this case,…
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Idea A Day
27 Feb 2013
Perhaps the one constant in becoming an expert in any particular craft is to do it regularly – preferably daily.…
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The Difference Between Mean and Median
20 Jan 2013
As a non-statistician who every now and then has to understand statistical concepts as if they were second nature, illustrative…