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Subject: Question: Young women in computer science To: Keith Winstein <keithw@...> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:47:14 -0400 I am a senio...

Here is a bunch of  advice   that people gave me on   interviewing for an assistant professorship in CS in 2014 that proved helpful at the...

Thank you for getting in touch! As you may know, Ph.D. students at Stanford are admitted by a department committee, and students usually rot...

Cambridge has been reinventing itself for four hundred years. It's a former farming village that became a major industrial town (New Eng...

Over on Quora , the question-and-answer Web site, my hackles were raised when I saw this question that seemed out of left field: Is Comp...

Update March 14, 2013: In 2012–13, Google Flu Trends did not successfully track the target flu indexes in the U.S., France, or Japan. Here ...

This is called the "binomial confidence interval," and there are a few solutions. Wikipedia discusses this here:  Binomial proport...

There is more than one way to answer this question! The ambiguity comes down to exactly how we interpret the statement that "Events A...

In 2005, we built a system to do the first amateur ATSC HDTV broadcasts. We broadcast MIT sporting events and the January "Integration ...

How about: Aviation (Montgolfier brothers, Robert brothers) Moving pictures (co-invented by the Lumière brothers) Electromagnetism (many...

At least   (a number with 1,264 decimal digits), using the contents of the tweet alone. Plus there is all the metadata, which probably adds ...

In 1895, the astronomer Simon Newcomb published his "Tables of the Sun," based on observations of the sun's position from 1750...

You're right that a "sidereal" day is about 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds. But this is not a day in the everyday sense. A ...

Stars are black bodies in thermal equilibrium ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation ). Their spectrum depends only on their te...

There is technique (and many strong feelings) to anchoring, but I don't think there are any great secrets beyond what is taught in saili...

The answer is no: not all white noise sounds alike! White noise can sound like "hissing" of a shortwave radio or it can sound li...

American Council for the Blind v. Boorstin, 644 F. Supp. 811 (D.D.C. 1986), holding that the First Amendment required the U.S. Government to...

I think the telephone is probably the all-time top Boston invention, but also these: 1802 -- Modern navigation -- Bowditch 1886 -- Ma...