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"Say Goodbye to Anonymity"

In case you missed 60 Minutes on CBS the other night, there’s a new challenge to privacy that is coming faster than people realize and...

0 replies - 2136 views - 05/21/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

I/O 2013: Android Graphics Performance

Chet Haase and Romain Guy from Google's Android UI team share some tips and tricks for getting the most out of Android graphics:

0 replies - 1129 views - 05/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

The Many Mathematical Models of the Shuffle

In a previous post, a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I will be in Las Vegas by the end of July. And I took the opportunity to write a post...

0 replies - 2551 views - 05/20/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Moving Education Toward Open Source in Sri Lanka

Recently, I read this post about Richard Stallman’s (RMS) visit to India. And read more about RMS’s visit impacted India. I read this very, very...

1 replies - 1541 views - 05/18/13 by Tharindu Mathew in Articles

When to Use Interfaces in Your Application

There are several advantages in utilizing the features of Interfaces in general programming. As you may already know, interfaces define a set of...

0 replies - 3555 views - 05/18/13 by Deepu Mohan Puthrote in Articles

These Moments are Precious

The moments when excitement builds throughout the whole team at the delight of discovery and creativity are precious. These moments feel like play rather than...

0 replies - 2465 views - 05/18/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles

Data Science Goes Mobile

In this talk from Strata 2013, Yael Garten of LinkedIn explores the wide open world of mobile analytics:

0 replies - 2989 views - 05/17/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

How to Cross the Chasm

Last week I had the good fortune of meeting and speaking with Geoffrey Moore, author of the widely acclaimed books Crossing the...

0 replies - 3299 views - 05/17/13 by Chris Spagnuolo in Articles

Big Data Ends the Era of Hunches

I made great money in college recruiting people for focus groups. Those were tough days for students in a state (New York) where the minimum wage was only...

0 replies - 2995 views - 05/17/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Stupid Questions and n00bs: 10 Intriguing Things You Should Do

Stupid questions and n00bs - top ten intriguing things you need to do from Øredev Conference on Vimeo. It really doesn’t matter how long you’ve been...

0 replies - 3549 views - 05/17/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Grails Goodness: Checking Results from Forward Action in Controller Unit Tests

In Grails we can write unit tests for controllers. We can check for example the results from a redirect() or render() method. To check the result from a...

0 replies - 2217 views - 05/17/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles

Forecasting Annual Totals From Monthly Data

This ques­tion was posed on cross​val​i​dated​.com: I have a monthly time series (for 2009–2012 non-​​stationary, with...

0 replies - 1790 views - 05/17/13 by Rob J Hyndman in Articles

A Look at How ZeroMQ Became a Leading Message-Passing Library

Pieter Hintjens, a maintainer of ZeroMQ: The Definitive Guide, discusses the patterns, the code, and the community behind this message-passing library.

0 replies - 2111 views - 05/17/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Searching for Perrin Pseudoprimes

A week ago I wrote about Perrin numbers, numbers Pn defined by a recurrence relation similar to Fibonacci numbers. If n is...

0 replies - 1441 views - 05/17/13 by John Cook in Articles

The Sorry State of the Anti-Software Patents Movment

I’ve flipped my blog from one theme to another, while keeping it within GitHub Pages. On the way, I’ve been deleting and updating cruft. But what should I...

0 replies - 2679 views - 05/16/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles