What does it take to transmit an idea? Words? The right ones, maybe. TONE? In moderation, maybe. Visuals? If they’re pretty, maybe. As information becomes more important, so does the need to transmit it well. While we are taught — mostly through experience and common knowledge — some rules of…

What an old programming book has to say about sparking cooperation. — Last summer I was part of the classic “public goods with punishment” experiment. In it, I was placed in a group of four, and was subjected to ten rounds of the following: 1. Get $2 in dimes. 2. Contribute some amount x to a pot, with an extra 20% of the…

The Data Science tool-belt has grown significantly as the industry matured. Nowadays, professionals must be skilled with importing, cleaning, processing and graphing data, not to mention evaluating the statistical significance of findings and managing several data sources. …

How Self-Learning Made a Difference in the Pandemic — It’s March. Class after class begin to shut down and awkwardly reemerge online. Happily, I happened to be part of a lucky few who barely felt the change in academic dynamics. I’m guilty of having less-than-perfect attendance and a hard time sticking to an overwhelmingly strict schedule; but before you…

Have you ever tried playing Dark Souls? I have. The aptly-named video game is soul-crushing; it gives you a simple set of actions and a plethora of reasons to throw your controller against a wall. That’s cool, but have you ever tried creating a big software from scratch? Or perhaps…