Back to Basics (What’s happening at a low level in computer programs)
2001-12-11 Joel Spolsky What’s happening at a low level in computer programs.
Month May 2019
The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets
2019-10-13 Ian Leslie Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analyzing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionized the art of extracting the truth.
Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
2019-04-15 Erik Bernhardsson Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work…
How a Gay Character on Arthur Reflects Changing Norms in the U.S.
2019-05-14 Ashley Fetters and Natalie Escobar This week, PBS portrayed a same-sex relationship on a children’s TV series—and got much more positive feedback than the last time it tried.
Uber IPO Underwriter Morgan Stanley Was So Certain That It Overpriced The Uber IPO It Shorted Uber Shares Right Before The IPO
2019-05-15 Thornton Mcenery
Why Recycling Doesn’t Work
Updated 2019-03-12 | Published 2018-08-14 Matthew Halliday You may use the blue bin, but it doesn’t mean you’re helping the environment
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Caltech’s Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy and The Feynman Lectures Website
How to Obfuscate
2017-06-29 by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum What misinformation on Twitter and radar have in common.
The Dow By Days of the Week
2018-01-04 Eddy Elfenbein “the compounded gains for the Dow by days of the week from March 1, 1986 to the end of 2017.”