When you visit this blog, your computer sends a message to the computer that hosts this site. That computer, in turn, responds with the priceless content currently being displayed by your web browser. This simple exchange, in essence, is the purpose of the internet; it provides a way for computers talk.
With so very many computers [...]
At the Atlantic, Matthew Yglesias remains a leading advocate of pandas as the world’s cutest bear. This photo, however, comes courtesy of James Fallows, another excellent Atlantic blogger and/or panda proponent (also he lives in Beijing). Since the giant panda is critically endangered, and also native to western China, there are few opportunities for [...]
Last month I mentioned that I was helping teach CS 159, a class entitled “Introduction to Computational Complexity”. I also mentioned that my interest in this subject is one of the main reason I ended up majoring in computer science. I didn’t, however, get a chance to explain what computational complexity is. Now that the [...]
The scores of people who read this blog no doubt noticed that I’ve now gone well over two whole weeks without a post. Truly a tragedy. Now that the semester is (almost) over, I won’t let it happen again (I’m going to shoot for a post every other day, so stay alert google).
As I mentioned [...]