- An index of issues in UK science and innovation policy – part 1: the strategic context Richard Jones 4 parter looks at what the UK wants to achieve with R&D; where it is now; and where it could go in the future. Part 2 is also available now.
- New funding effort will deploy a corps of scientist 'scouts' to spot innovative ideas It seems probable to me that a partial cause of the slowdown in innovation is the relatively homogeneous ways in which we pick ideas to fund (mostly through peer review). Experimentation with other routes of identifying good ideas is welcome.
- Branch/cmove and compiler optimizations An interesting set of examples where compilers introduce branches into what, at a high level, seems to be code without branches.
- Simple And Terrible Machines The link between guitars and software has been underexplored until now!
- Working notes on the role of vision papers in basic science I find vision papers mostly unvisionary, and I suspect that a lot of "obviously" visionary papers are only obviously so in retrospect. That said, this post makes a good case for the importance of vision papers.
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