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2025 1

  1. Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

2024 1

  1. The hater’s guide to Kubernetes

2022 5

  1. Generalizing Secret Santa with integer programming in Julia
  2. Why is it so hard to give Google money?
  3. The problem with bitcoin miners
  4. Rust for web devs: Destructuring
  5. What does it mean to listen on a port?

2021 4

  1. “Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs
  2. Betting Against Bitcoin
  3. Calling WebAssembly from Rust
  4. Ranked-choice Voting for Data Scientists

2020 1

  1. The WebAssembly App Gap

2019 3

  1. Comments on A False Majority
  2. The Kelly criterion: How to size bets
  3. The Kelly criterion: How to size bets

2018 9

  1. Did the White House Doctor a Video?
  2. Did the White House Doctor a Video?
  3. The Misunderstood Electoral College
  4. The Misunderstood Electoral College
  5. Understanding the Mandelbrot Fractal
  6. Understanding the Mandelbrot Fractal
  7. Optimizing Plots with a TSP Solver
  8. Optimizing Plots with a TSP Solver
  9. Tuning Style Transfer with a Control Surface

2017 6

  1. Surface Projection
  2. Surface Projection
  3. Stop Dragging Hayek into Bitcoin
  4. The Surprising Persistence of Bad Signals
  5. Fractal Generation with L-Systems
  6. Fractal Generation with L-Systems

2013 1

  1. Visualizing Flight Options

2012 1

  1. Make for Data Scientists

2011 2

  1. Groupon Visualization in HBR
  2. What $480 of Gross Revenue Looks Like to Groupon

2010 5

  1. Visualizing Facebook Friends
  2. Data Structures for Range-Sum Queries
  3. An experiment in A/B Testing my Résumé
  4. Why R Doesn't Suck
  5. Groupon Math: Data Scraping to Estimate Revenue

2009 2

  1. Do we Really Need Another Programming Language?
  2. N-Queens in a Tweet

2008 2

  1. Python Debugging with Decorators
  2. SimpleDiff in Python

2007 4

  1. Tail Recursion in Python
  2. Garden Path Sentences
  3. A Simple Diff Algorithm in PHP
  4. webFractal: Web-based Fractal Explorer