Stephen Hawking’s new book promises a lot of hype. CNN Already published two separate articles about it on their site even hough no-one has read it yet. I’ve added it to my Amazon Science Books Wishlist, and will buy it when I come round to it unless some generous soul wants to offer it to [...]

While going through some old code, for another article I’m writing that will come up on the blog, I came across an implementation of binary search in C. While the implementation itself was certainly OK, it wasn’t exactly a general-purpose implementation, so I thought I’d write one and put it on the C++ for the [...]

D.G. Gibson et al. reported, in Science Magazine, the “Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome”. Now, I used to be a biologist and have studied this particular type of biology for a number of years before leaving the field, mostly for financial reasons, for a career in computer science. I’m [...]