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- Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012) https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/ 87 comments
- Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012) http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/ 46 comments
- Is there a tension between creativity and accuracy? http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/is-there-a-tension-between-creativity-and-accuracy/ 35 comments
- How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (2013) http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ 4 comments
- Why Bloom filters work the way they do http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/why-bloom-filters-work-the-way-they-do/ 3 comments
- Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software (2012) http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/ 8 comments
- Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/ 122 comments
- The Google technology stack (2008) http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/lecture-course-the-google-technology-stack/ 14 comments
- How the Bitcoin protocol actually works http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ 55 comments
- How to answer a question: a simple system http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-answer-a-question-a-simple-system/ 6 comments
- How changing the structure of the web changes PageRank http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-changing-the-structure-of-the-web-changes-pagerank/ 4 comments
- Write your first MapReduce program in 20 minutes http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/write-your-first-mapreduce-program-in-20-minutes/ 12 comments
- Introduction to Statistical Machine Translation http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/introduction-to-statistical-machine-translation/ 4 comments
- “A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points” http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/867/ 14 comments
- Using your laptop to compute PageRank for millions of webpages http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/using-your-laptop-to-compute-pagerank-for-millions-of-webpages/ 6 comments
- Course: The Google Technology Stack http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/lecture-course-the-google-technology-stack/ 4 comments
- Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=451 4 comments
- Kasparov versus the World http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=267 2 comments
- Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software (2012) http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/ 13 comments programming
- A guy crawled a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours using 20 Amazon EC2 machine instances. http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-billion-webpages-in-40-hours/ 24 comments webdev
- If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (A discussion of Judea Pearl's causal calculus) http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does/ 21 comments philosophy
- Why Bloom filters work the way they do http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/why-bloom-filters-work-the-way-they-do/ 30 comments programming
- Bitcoin for dummies - Author walks users through how Bitcoin actually works http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ 535 comments technology
- How the Bitcoin protocol actually works http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ 317 comments programming
- The causal calculus lets us do something that seems almost miraculous: we can figure out the probability that someone would get cancer given that they are in the smoking group in a randomized controlled experiment, without needing to do the randomized controlled experiment. http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does/ 24 comments math
- Ongoing Progress on Tightening Zhang's Bound - Record is now ~100,000 http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=bounded_gaps_between_primes 44 comments math
- How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-billion-webpages-in-40-hours/ 70 comments programming
- How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-billion-webpages-in-40-hours/ 4 comments technology
- Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/ 10 comments lisp
- Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/ 150 comments programming
- Write your first MapReduce program in 20 minutes http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/write-your-first-mapreduce-program-in-20-minutes/ 33 comments programming
- The hivemind is reviewing Deolalikar's P != NP paper http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=deolalikar%27s_p%21%3Dnp_paper 4 comments programming
- The Wikipedia Paradox http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/the-wikipedia-paradox/ 9 comments math
- Three myths about scientific peer review http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=531 7 comments science
- Using your laptop to compute PageRank for millions of webpages http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=523 4 comments programming
- Quantum computing for everyone http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=459 2 comments compsci
- Quantum computing for everyone http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=459 6 comments programming
- Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=451 4 comments programming
- Think of the amazing things enabled by mass literacy. I wonder what changes in civilization would be enabled by mass _scientific_ literacy? http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=328 2 comments science
- Kasparov versus the World http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=267 3 comments reddit.com