February 2012
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Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career... →
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“If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by...
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Cloud Atlas →
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cloud atlas is a pictorial key to the nomenclature of clouds. Early cloud atlases were an important element in the training of meteorologists and in weather forecasting, and the author of a 1923 atlas stated that “increasing use of the air as a means of transportation will require and lead to a detailed knowledge of all the secrets of cloud...
"The Symbolism Survey" →
“In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their...
"Why are Scientific Retractions Increasing?" →
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