Submissions by johndcook

The rise of mixed precision arithmetic

The rise of mixed precision arithmetic

Lessons learned from working at Continuum

Python Is Not C

The top 10 mathematical achievements of the last few years

Software has its own Gresham's Law

Why the robots aren't coming in the way you expect

The 21st Century’s Great Renaissance Inventor

How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major

Snowblowing is NP-complete

First Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award

Equational derivations of the Y combinator and Church encodings in Python

“The Imitation Game” and Alan Turing’s Real Contribution to Computing

The Infamous Windows “Hello World” Program

Should I Get a Ph.D.?

Return of Patronage

Academia as an ‘anxiety machine’

A world without statistics

Norris numbers

Learning to cope with dysgraphia

Memory Locality: Why Java is sometimes much slower than C++

Physical probability doesn't exist

Take small steps