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2014-08-02 June 2014 IBM Research Ponder This Challenge

My solution to the June, 2014 Ponder This Challenge by IBM Research.

2014-05-11 Counting is Hard

Counting at scale is harder than you might think.

2014-05-11 Look at Your Data

Don't just look at summary statistics. Really look at your data.

2014-05-10 Hiring Great Data Scientists

Thoughts about the role of 'Data Scientist', how to hire great ones, and some practical matters of tools and version control.

2014-04-26 Egg Drop Puzzle

Given an N-story building and M eggs, find the highest floor of the building from which you can drop the eggs before they break.

2013-01-24 MIT Media Lab Visit

2013 behind-the-scenes visit to the MIT Media Lab

2005-05-15 Personal Remarks about the Xbox Emulator

Personal notes I made about the Xbox 360 emulator project shortly after it was announced.

2005-01-05 Random Number Generation

2004-02-02 book: XQuery: The XML Query Language

1994-12-04 Report from the 1994 Futures of Mathematics Communication Conference