Stories by sampo

Solu: the Finnish pocket computer that wants to take over the world

Standing up for science

Practically Accurate Floating-Point Math (2014) [pdf]

How smart language helped end Seattle’s paralyzing bikelash

Darwin Among the Machines (1863)

Greece debt crisis: Eurozone summit strikes deal

Darwin among the Machines

Even uncontacted Amazon tribe harbors bacteria resistant to antibiotics

Matrix: a new specification for federated realtime chat

Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?

Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World

How Game Theory Helped Improve New York City’s High School Application Process

How Nokia’s smartphone software strategy failed and ultimately killed the brand [pdf]

Gates Foundation mandates open access for all the research it funds

Why Germans Are Afraid of Google

Has DNA Evidence Unmasked Jack the Ripper?

Why my children were lucky to get accepted to a Finnish school in Qatar

The Popularity of Data Analysis Software

Empirical Evidence for Evidence-Based Design of Programming Languages [pdf]

Statistics: Losing Ground to CS, Losing Image Among Students

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