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For context about why I care, here is a slight paraphrasing from grant proposal I recently wrote: For the last eight years, I have been work...

My previous post stirred some people's emotions. Reading the comments, it seems part of that came from the tension between teaching and ...

A PhD student at Carnegie Mellon costs approximately $80,000 per year. (Research programmers and post-docs cost about the same.) Given that ...

I want to make a computer science reality TV show. Like in most reality shows, the participants would compete to win a prize, but since they...

Is Carnegie Mellon a good university to go to if you plan on working for or building a startup? That's the question I was recently asked...

Dear Person Who Took My Name on Twitter and Linked to a Porn Site, Yes, I know, I was stupid. I should have taken @LuisvonAhn years ago when...

Many people have emailed asking why I haven't posted on this blog for a while. Well, here's why: I've been busy working on a bun...