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reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books

A brilliant idea, and well executed too. The kind of thing that makes me wonder, I wish I had thought of that! The best part? CMU is behind it. reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
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STL is Slow Template Library

The C++ Standard Template Library (STL) can be pretty intimidating. I used to think that there's a lot of magic under the covers to make things go really fast. It turns out that while using the STL is convinient for prototype, its not really built for performance. A few days back, we needed to do some [...]
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The essential workspace

Whenever I switch work spaces – which, thankfully, is not often – I spend a huge amount of time just setting up my working environment, typically 1-2 days. Its critical for your productivity, efficiency and general well being at your work place that you are familar and comfortable with your workspace. In my context, workspace [...]
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On blind reviews

This probably won't make much sense to people out of academia. But anyways. As you are probably aware, peer reviewed publications go through an elaborate reviewing process. In Computer Science (and perhaps in other fields as well), typically conferences follow some kind of anonymization on the review process. These are called blind reviews. Depending on the [...]
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Women in Science

Funny essay. WARNING: if you’re a graduate student pursuing a PhD in science/engineering, this might be depressing. Also, the essay isn’t really about women. Women in Science
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