In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...

Of all the many indignities that can befall an actor, a sex scene gone wrong must be one of the very worst. This autumn, ...

Cache conscious hash map and hash set for strings based on the "Cache-conscious collision resolution in string hash tables." (Askitis Nikolas and Justin Zobel, 2005) paper. You can find some details ...

“Robert” and “Bob” refer to the same first name but are textually far apart. Traditional string similarity functions do not allow a flexible way to account for such synonyms, abbreviations and aliases ...

Automated type inference for Machine Learning pipelines. In the context of tabular data, type_infer aims for optimal interpretation of each column’s data type for ML use cases. For example, strings ...

It's rare these days for an artist to ask for fewer microphones, but after warming up in our space, Billy Strings did just that. Surrounded by his band, the bluegrass virtuoso brings back the spirit ...

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...