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Every so often, somebody points out how bad of a metric code coverage is . And of course, on its own, it doesn’t tell you much: after all, it’s a single number. How could it possibly reflect all the subtlety (or lack thereof) of your designs and of your...
Warning : this post is devoid of contents. During one of the very first classes of my Bachelor of Science in Physics, I got struck with a particular piece of information that sounded like a revelation to me: If a problem exhibits a certain symmetry, the...
I know as a good microsoftee I should be supportive of what my employer does no matter what it is, and I might get fired for this post, but Eilon’s latest article is wrong on so many levels I have to step up with whatever integrity I have left and fix...
Heard on France Inter the other day about scientific research funding (didn't catch the names of the authors of these quotes though): "Ignorance will always be more expensive than research." "Electricity wasn't discovered by trying...
This is the first translation I'm doing of one of my French science popularization blog posts. When I was preparing my PhD thesis a few years ago, I was also doing weekly hour-long preparation sessions for groups of three students to train them for...
I just sent this letter to Scientific American . I'd be interested to have any informed opinion on the matter. I’ve read the article about black hole computers with great interest, but there are still a few questions that I think remain unanswered. The...
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