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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST

Seminal paper by von Neumann et al on how to build a computer cs.unc.edu/~adyilie/comp2…

Computing the distance from a point to a line johndcook.com/blog/2024/03/1…

LZW compression en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2…

How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/0…

A proposition in disjunctive normal form is a disjunction of clauses, each clause being a conjunction of literals or negation of literals.

How to test a random number generator johndcook.com/blog/2010/12/0…

Software plumber: Repairing abstraction leaks

Every propositional formula can be transformed into conjunctive normal form and into disjunctive normal form.

Knuth's series for chi squared percentage points johndcook.com/blog/2025/04/2…

"Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs." — Brian Kernighan

'The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.' -- John Ousterhout

“Things have changed in the last two decades.” — Bill Gates, 1995

Kappa calculus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_cal…

Stable and unstable recurrence relationships johndcook.com/blog/2020/01/1…

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/8…

'In the beginning was the command line' by Neal Stephenson web.archive.org/web/2018041519…