Entries from October 2009

October 16, 2009

Dense-Subset Break-the-Bank Challenge

I’m preparing for my first global travel for global health, but the net is paying attention to a paper that I think I’ll like, and I want to mention it briefly before I fly.
Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products is 27 pages of serious TCS, but it is so obviously applicable that people [...]

October 10, 2009

The Two Rules of Program Optimization

Wow, where does the day go? I spent all my non-meeting time debugging something. At least I fixed it before 5 PM.
The details of the problem are boring, but the whole ordeal could have been avoided if I had just followed the two rules of optimizing software in my Generic Disease Modeling System. [...]

October 5, 2009

Conference you should know about

This weekend marks the submission of my first “Global Health” paper. Congratulations to me! And many, many thanks to all the people who have worked with me to make it happen. I’ll go into details sometime in the future, first let me see how things go in the refereeing process.

While I was [...]