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Fear and the Future: AI's Threat to job security - An interview with AI professor Alejandro Piad Morffis
Exploring the Implications, Concerns, and Strategies Amidst AI's Growing Influence in the Job Market
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The Competitive Mindset in CS Education
A look at the pros and cons of incentivizing a competitive mindset in Computer Science students.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Alberto Gonzalez Rosales
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Learning
A short essay on the advantages and limitations of the two most basic learning approaches and how to mix them for crafting an optimal learning…
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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How to Write Technical Articles
A general workflow for writing short technical documents (essays, blog posts, papers) while meeting your deadlines and staying sane.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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What Academia can learn from Open Source
An opinionated critique of the practice of peer-review plus some radical suggestions on how to make Science better.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Binary Search
An introduction to the most important problem in Computer Science and one of the most clever algorithms ever devised.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Rethinking College Education
When all information is available online for free (with caveats), what role does college education play? My thesis: feedback is all that matters.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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It's all about team work
When everyone has access to every piece of knowledge with a single click, what good is college for? This is a short essay on role of Higher Education in…
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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A Universal Language for Reasoning
Leibniz's dream and the search for a universal language of thoughts
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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