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Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation edit / delete

One of the papers that inspired Tomas/Richard's rigorous benchmarking work. This is a much simpler strategy, involving looking for overlapping confidence intervals -- which is statistically pretty dubious, but common in other disciplines...

to benchmarking confidence java performance research statistics ... on 26 March 2014

Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong! edit / delete

Lots of examples of how environmental factors (e.g. environment variable size, room temperature, link order, ASLR...) can affect experimental results, to the tune of 20% or more. Basically: why pretty much any benchmark you've seen in a paper where the effect size isn't huge is probably nonsense.

to benchmarking compiler performance reproducibility research statistics ... on 26 March 2014

Open Competitive Intelligence Resources - SCIP edit / delete

("Competitive intelligence" is what the CIA does.) "Analytic Thinking and Presentation for Intelligence Producers" is interesting as an introductory guide to research writing; students may like to read the advice on structuring an argument, editing for succinctness, and giving good presentations.

to ag0700 editing intelligence presentation research writing ... on 30 November 2013

The UK Memory Management Network edit / delete

to memory mm mmnet research ... on 20 July 2013

>TILT AT WINDMILLS: Teaching IF at UCSC edit / delete

How to introduce IF in a games course.

to games if research teaching ... on 11 July 2013

Blue Lacuna: An Interactive Novel by Aaron A. Reed edit / delete

The "making of" details are interesting -- particularly how it varies the NPC text.

to conversation games if research ... on 11 July 2013

>TILT AT WINDMILLS edit / delete

Aaron Reed's blog. Lots of interesting IF-related stuff.

to games if research ... on 11 July 2013

Interactive Fiction - Nick Montfort edit / delete

Nick Montfort's IF overview, including lots of interesting references.

to etext games if research ... on 11 July 2013

Computing at Chilton: 1961-2003 edit / delete

Comprehensive history of computing at Rutherford Appleton Labs (and Harwell before that). Includes some interesting stuff on the PERQ, and lots of photos.

to history ibm perq ral research retrocomputing supercomputing ... on 07 June 2013

Computing Education Blog | How do people understand computing, and how can we improve that understanding? edit / delete

Interesting, if very American in perspective (e.g. the recent article about how charging less for an education risks destroying its value -- this wouldn't fly anywhere else in the world where precisely the opposite trend is taking place).

to cs-ed research teaching ... on 02 April 2013