“Blockchain” is my candidate for the word of 2017. Almost every week, I read news about new blockchain-based business ventures that are to disrupt or at least significantly improve an area of busin...

“A Random Walk Down Wall Street” is a long-running bestseller that promises to explain in lay terms how the security market works, and how to invest for retirement for maximum benefit. The book doe...

I would like to discuss some advantages that the Bayesian inference offers over its frequentist counterpart. Particularly, I will focus on A/B testing and how these two statistical schools help us ...

“On Becoming a Person” offers its readers an optimistic perspective on human nature and our capability to live a fulfilling life. Dr Carl Rogers, a psychotherapist best known for his work on client...

“Understanding Petri Nets” by Wolfgang Reisig is an academic introduction to the topic of Petri nets. I decided to read it because Petri nets were a thing that I have heard about a few times, but n...

Choosing a portfolio is a daunting task for beginning, amateur investors. It’s difficult to translate rudimentary knowledge and well-meaning, but general advice, into concrete numbers representing ...

On one lazy evening I checked out what new flash games that have appeared on Kongregate. That lead to me discover Pixelo - a nonogram puzzle game with well done GUI and lots of puzzles. I really en...

Creativity Inc is Ed Calmutt’s story about his career, the rise of Pixar and people who played part in it, and most of all, a collection of management advice from the president of one the most crea...

In one of my current prototype projects I need to encode voice into binary data and then later transfer it through a voice channel. This forced me to push my limits and learn new things which I wil...

In the previous post I have explained the rationale behind my Pentago game implementation. Here I will show how I have used Haskell’s profiling tools to uncover, understand, and fix serious time a...