How to (try to) turn an MS into (a shot at) a PhD (if you must).
Warning: this is advice I have not tried, and I would not expect it to have worked for me. It is, however, my best guess about how to create an unofficial pa...
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Why some reverse functions are slow
I overheard two students discussing “the time complexity of reverse,” without any more concrete referent. This post is a response for those students.
Make macOS tel: links open in Google Voice
All I wanted was to be able to click on a phone number and have it do something useful. One bald yak later, here we are. A phone number link is just a URL. I...
How does an interpreter work?
It sometimes helps to step through a non-trivial example of evaluation in order to understand how an environment dynamically develops during the evaluation. ...
Letter of recommendation (from a professor whose class you took)
Let’s say you did well in an upper-division class with a professor. You enjoyed the class and also enjoyed learning the material. That might seem like it wou...