I always thought it would be interesting to find out who I had the most mutual friends with on Facebook, but it would have been a lot of clicking to find that out. So here is a little tool that lists your friends according to most mutual friends. The results are actually quite surprising. Most … Continue reading Most Mutual Friends
I wrote a short PHP script which allows you to compile study guides really quickly. Lets set the scene: You have a long list of vocab terms, and you need to collect basic information on them all quickly…basically you need to find the definition from Wikipedia. With this tool, you just type in your words, … Continue reading A Fun Tool For Making Study Guides
So I got the ipad yesterday, and ive been playing around with it a bunch and I think I figure out some of the things that make it an awesome piece of technology. The reason I want to explain it is because I have heard such opposing opinions on the device. I have heard people … Continue reading A review and explanation of the iPad (written from my iPad)
Download the Stanford Flipside iPhone app! and watch the commercial! Continue reading The Stanford Flipside iPhone App is Here!
implement “Oh, let me go implement this in C” optimize (General math term) “I think we need to optimize this code” Continue reading Addition to the list of words CS people use to often
non-trivial This is used to describe something that most people would just call “hard.” However cs people need to make sure to tell you that it’s actually “not extremely easy.” You will probably find a cs person using non-trivial where it should not be used. For example, “Doing the laundry is completely non-trivial.” well-defined ambiguous … Continue reading Small But Growing List of Words Computer Science (and probably Math people) Use Too Much