Teaching, Playing, and Programming

More than a year ago, I answered a question on Stack Overflow about the Quickselect algorithm , which takes some unsorted data and finds th...

[ This is a letter I included with a recent wedding present. ] Dear Ben and Sarah, Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time… I think ...

See also Eating My Way Across Kauai New for Lost fans: see extra links at the end of the post We had fewer days on Oahu than Kauai, and p...

See also Eating My Way Across Oahu I love to eat, so I'm going to temporarily hijack this blog with some dining recommendations from ou...

For the last several years, I've held an in-class tournament on the last class day before Thanksgiving. Everybody's mind is elsewhe...

Warning: this is probably only of interest to functional programmers. Maciej Kotowicz recently asked on the Haskell Cafe mailing list abou...

One of my favorite textbooks on algorithms—in spite of the fact that it's twenty years old—is Udi Manber's Introduction to Algorithm...