tommy / miscellaneous

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and the efficiency of modern solvers, which can today find solutions within seconds for problems that were out of reach a decade ago.

Amsterdam spent years trying to build an unbiased welfare fraud algorithm. Here’s what we found when we analyzed it.

An essay by Freya India on the loss of simple phone-free childhoods.

Blog posts on computer science / math

On the enshittification of the internet.

Programmers dislike meetings because they're on a different type of schedule. Meetings cost them more.

If that creature walked into your stand-up in human form, you'd fire them before they could say "no blockers".

If all the information that enters your brain is being filtered by an algorithm, it seems important that you know the algorithm is on your side.

The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom