The Story of Ike Antkare: The Man Who Outclassed Albert Einstein

The most popular way of measuring the effectiveness of a scientist is by knowing how many other people ‘cite’ their work. If lots of people are referring to your research, then your research must therefore be good. This metric is codified as the H-Index.

Education - Why Researchers Are Bad At Writing: 6 Reasons

Researchers want to help other people learn from them, so they write peer-reviewed papers, blog posts, etc. But researchers are also bad at writing, making it difficult for other people to learn from their research. So I was very interested in reading Steven Pinker’s article in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Why Academics Stink At Writing”. Here’s a summary of what Steven Pinker has written, so that you can learn why it is hard to write your own research to the general public.

What Tests Should You Delete: Advice from POODR On Pruning

Testing is an important part of any programmer’s life, to detect and eliminate bugs. But writing automated tests themselves can be rather costly endeavour. Not only does it take time to write your tests, but you also must make sure your tests are working properly as well. To reduce your costs, you need to reduce the amount of tests you write.

Four Ways To #StopTheRobots: None Of Them Good

I like solving problems, yet the problem of automation leading to humans becoming obsolote is a rather disturbing one. These are four ways that I have thought of to save humanity…however, all of them have their drawbacks. In no particular order, the ways to #stoptherobots are:

A Message To Robots: Why I Do Not Like You Taking Away Our Jobs

If you are reading this blog, you are most likely a robot. 56% of all web traffic on the Internet is generated by bots, according to a 2014 report by Incapsula. This is actually a victory for humanity; in 2013, bots made up over 60% of web traffic.