I found a cool website called InnoCentive . They currently host 116 active competitions - some of them with million dollar prizes. Most of t...

When I logged into Facebook today I was greeted with this message: That's right, Facebook is removing the ability to import RSS fee...

I spent the day watching the MLG Starcraft 2 championship. This is by far the most entertaining sport I have watched. I bet it would be fun...

A while ago I created the site rpscontest.com - a rock-paper-scissors programming competition hosted by Google App Engine. The site is curr...

Today Google Reader was updated with a new UI and Google+ integration. Although the reaction on Reddit seems to be quite negative, I like ...

This weekend I started working on the DARPA Shredder Challenge . This is a contest to reconstruct shredded documents. There are a total of f...

I managed to beat dark souls in a total of 57 hours of play time. I made heavy use of the multiplayer components of the game - summoning oth...

Demon's Souls was one of the greatest games I have played. The game was so difficult that I considered giving up several times - but...

String matching is an important problem in several fields of computer science such as bioinformatics, data compression, and search engines. ...

I recently got promoted to gold league: Here is the army graph for a match I am proud of: The enemy completely destroyed my army and...

I have been in Istanbul , Turkey for the last week at the RoboCup robotics competition. We are competing in the small size league . Today w...

I finished my master's thesis! The final copy is posted here . Now that my thesis is done I can start work at Google. My start date is J...

The contest has finished and my final ranking was 6th place. One rank away from a prize! The approach I used was using template matching an...

NASA is hosting a TopCoder marathon match to detect craters in satellite images. The contest lasts about two weeks and there are $10,000 in...

I recently started bitcoin mining using my GeForce GTX 260 . Some of my friends have invested thousands of dollars into bitcoin mining hard...

I finally got promoted! I went directly from rank one in the bronze league to rank one in silver.

Within a few hours of launching my Rock Paper Scissors website somebody found an exploit. The exploit caused all users to be forwarded to a...

Over the last two days I implemented a new website: Rock Paper Scissors Programming Contest . It is amazing how fast a relatively complex we...

In Starcraft 2 I am currently rank 2 of bronze league. However, from what I understand the rank within a league is not very meaningful - the...

Last week I bought Starcraft II. The game has already been out for a year, so I am late to the party. I also never played the original Starc...