Stories by jsomers

Exploring the complexity of driving directions using the Google Maps API

Beware short forms: the dangers of a low word count

The trouble with "The Big Bang Theory"

The "1,000 Most Important Words" (or more modestly, just a very good word list)

Boston-area hackers looking for work?

Bibliography from Godel, Escher, Bach, annotated by Douglas Hofstadter

A Stochastic Model for Picking Winners in the NCAA Tournament

“It turns out”

Ask HN: Try my Jeopardy game

"Don't just read it; fight it"

Project Euler problem 106 and the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Bill Watterson on his art, life, and Calvin and Hobbes

Wandering the web stacks, or, fighting intellectual atrophy on the internet

Rule 110, or, how a little orange dot becomes a universal computer

Open books

By Inspection

The Snickers Trick

The wrong way to search Google in Firefox

Classic: "Clinical vs. Actuarial Assessments" (1989) -- models beat experts

A quick look at Metacat (AI project out of Douglas Hofstadter's research group)

1 2 3 4 5 6