Opiniões e notícias

Links para artigos na imprensa, blogs, opiniões, conselhos, videos, etc.

Algoritmos

The Yoda of Silicon Valley, in Profiles in Science, The New York Times, Dec. 17, 2018. [Dica do Arnaldo Mandel.]
Matt Barton, The fine art of computer programming: Free software and the future of literate programming, Free Software Magazine, 5/8/2005
Diomidis Spinellis, Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective, Addison Wesley, 2003 | ISBN 0-201-79940-5

Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager, QuantaMagazine, 2018. 18-year-old Ewin Tang has proven that classical computers can solve the “recommendation problem” nearly as fast as quantum computers. The result eliminates one of the best examples of quantum speedup.
Computadores quânticos são mais poderosos que computadores convencionais: Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve, QuantaMagazine, 2018 (Ran Raz, Avishay Tal, Oracle Separation of BQP and PH, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, 2018)
The Limits of Quantum: artigo de Scott Aaronson na Scientific American. [Rascunho do artigo traz mais informações]
Scott Aaaronson, Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity, https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791
Cientista pode ter respondido a maior questão da ciência da computação, Folha.com, 10/8/2010
Lipton's blog Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Vazirani writes about Seeking Combinatorial Algorithms for Convex Programs in the blog Algorithmic Game Theory by Noam Nisan
Survey of Problems, Questions, and Conjectures, from the book Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency, A. Schrijver [ Minha cópia local]

The History of Urbanization, 3700 BC - 2000 AD
Dr. Cal Newport, Quit social media, TEDxTysons
Software = bom salário? no blog do Silvio Meira, 3/8/2010
Why I Like Working in Academia , by R. T. Snodgrass
Escrevendo muderno, artigo bem-humorado de João Ubaldo Ribeiro n'O Estado de São Paulo, 15/4/2001
A volta do caderno rabugento, artigo bem-humorado de João Ubaldo Ribeiro n'O Estado de São Paulo, 18/7/2010
Evolução da população do planeta e da emissão de CO2: animação produzida por David Bleja para BreathingEarth
Textos sobre ensino superior no Brasil no OrdemLivre.org: Sem doutorado? Então fora!, por Alexandre Barros (19/4/2010). Também O problema não é o doutorado, são os incentivos, por Claudio Shikida (21/4/2010)
Power Tools, de Steven Strogatz, na coluna Opinionator no New York Times de 28/3/2010 (falando da incompreendida função log)
High-Tech Cheating Abounds, and Professors Bear Some Blame, artigo no The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, DC, 28/3/2010)
Os melhores empregos em 2010 nos EUA, Wall Street Journal, 5/1/2010
Aula divertida de metodologia científica no Science B*tch

Se conselho fosse bom, ninguém oferecia de graça.

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Resposta de Ryan Reich à pergunta Why do so many people complain about their PhD? I've just finished my masters and I had the best time of my life. Why would a PhD be different? no Quora.
Analogia com livro de cozinha. A gente começa a cozinhar seguindo religiosamente o que está escrito no livro de receitas, sem entender bem o que está fazendo. Depois de alguma prática, entretanto, as receitas são consultadas apenas por alto e a gente passa a se virar por conta própria, inventando e redescobrindo coisas, métodos, ingredientes.
Useful Things to Know About Ph.D. Thesis Research, by H.T. Kung (Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987) [Minha tradução livre da página].
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student, by Manuel Blum
How to Succeed in Graduate School, by Marie desJardins (Dept. of CS & EE, University of Maryland)
Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School, by Phil Agre
The PhD journey: how to choose a good supervisor, by Matthew Killeya (in NewScientist, 2008)
What to expect from life as a postgrad, by Matthew Killeya (in NewScientist, 2007)
Graduate Research, Writing, and Careers in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University. (Veja especialmente os itens Writing Papers and Abstracts e Presenting Research.)
Applying for Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science, by Mor Harchol-Balter

Quem sabe, faz. Quem não sabe, ensina.

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Seven characteristics of great education systems, artigo no The Globe and Mail, 2/9/2013
Universities should educate—employers should train, artigo no The Globe and Mail, 3/9/2013
Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?, by Marc Parry, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 7, 2012 [the future of higher education, distance education, social networking, teaching]
Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool, by Emily Hanford. Paper in NPR (National Public Radio), 1/1/2012
5 Tools for Building a Next-Generation 'Hybrid' Class Website, by Prof. Hacker, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20/5/2011
Sermão da Montanha - Versão para educadores, por Eduardo Machado, 15/10/2009
Peter Norvig, Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (Why is everyone in such a rush, So You Want to be a Programmer, … )