students causing me to crumble into dust with essay responses including these gems: "Host files exist because there was no DNS back in your day" and ""there weren't that many websites before the turn of the century" #sre #devops #dns #compsci
#MULCIA: PhD position in number theory and formalization at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. https://is.gd/ALjsq2 #PhD #PostDoc #CompSci

#Canvas Cyberattack: When will we learn that technical monocultures suck?
Also, I remember when every university developed their own IT stuff in-house. It might have been janky or ugly, but it bloody well worked.

If your university can't come up with a student portal, maybe they shouldn't be teaching #CompSci?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

📜 Tidy Data [2014]

By: Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickham's paper, "Tidy Data," published in September 2014, provides foundational principles for organizing and cleaning data, which has had considerable influence in the field of data science.

📖 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/refs/heads/main/data_science/tidy_data.pdf

#paperswelove #research #compsci

Counting beyond the mind: The abacus and the origins of calculation. ~ Matthew A. McIntosh. https://brewminate.com/counting-beyond-mind-abacus-early-calculation/ #Math #CompSci
The Abacus and the Origins of Calculation

Explore how the abacus shaped early calculation, commerce, education, mental arithmetic, and the human understanding of number.

Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas

Corrina Sivak on Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store [PWL Tokyo]

April 30, 2026.

📜 https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf
📺 https://youtu.be/RnHS0Yn8jH4

#paperswelove #tokyo #research #compsci #aws

Can anyone recommend computer science papers about embedding an interpreter in a program written in a compiled language, like Emacs, web browsers, and the many things that embed Lua (Redis, Neovim, game engines, etc.)? Something like John Ousterhout’s 1998 paper on scripting languages as glue, but turned inside out, with the system programming language on the outside and the scripting language on the inside? I’m especially interested in thoughts about when it makes sense to do this and what characteristics the embedded language and its environment should have.

@lindsey
@dabeaz
@koronkebitch
@ricci

#CompSci #ProgrammingLanguages

It was fantastic to learn from Kylie McColl’s workshop on K-12 outreach at the 2025 IDEATE Summit! 🎓
If we want more diverse students in computing at Australian unis, we need to rethink how we engage with schools.
See the slides: https://ideate.community/resources/outreach/
#HigherEd #Computing #STEM #Diversity #K12 #CompSci #Inclusion #CSed #AussieEd #EdTech
Outreach - IDEATE

Presentation by Kylie McColl at IDEATE Summit 2025 on Inclusive tech futures: Secondary school engagement

IDEATE
#informationtechnology #it #computers #programming #compurerscience #compsci #cs ​ i have a question for people who studied computer science/information technology through academic institutions (college, uni, etc)

my question is, the thesis. did they need one? what were the theses made about?

i'm currently studying IT (first year) and i just casually thinking about the thesis it's like what do i do with it. how does one write a thesis about this

thanks!

📜 Netlib Repository

By: Eric Grosse, Jack Dongarra

The Netlib repository, established by Eric Grosse and Jack Dongarra, is a significant resource in the realm of scientific computing, providing free access to mathematical software, databases, and papers.

📖 http://www.netlib.org/

#paperswelove #research #compsci

The Netlib