Tay’s Bad Day

What Can We Learn from the First Viral Attack on a Social Learning Algorithm?

Microsoft had to euthanize its “chatbot,” Tay, because after a day on the Internet it started chatting up genocide, misogyny and racial hatred. Tay…

When You Are Grown and in Charge

To the men who have asked me to be on their team at hackathons. To the men who sat next to me in class and struck up a conversation, and to those who have invited me to study sessions. To those who do not question my abilities because of my gender, my race.

Code Brooklyn

Computer science education is important. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs in this field will grow by 22 percent from 2012–2022. Not only is it critical to ensure that our students are prepared to compete for those jobs, it is paramount to train their minds with the quantitative and…

The future is ours

Dear Women In Computer Science,

Unlike most people in computer science, I didn’t write my first line of code until my junior year.

I put so many efforts to catch up. It took me a while to understand what does “this” keyword actually refer to…

A Note

Dear fellow member of the fairer sex,

First of all, I would like to congratulate you for your guts to take up a field that is predominately occupied by males. My advice to you is, do not get intimidated by the people around you. If you don’t understand copy constructors, that’s okay. But…

Avoid to Get Outdated as a Developer

Here at Codeminer we use Ruby and Ruby on Rails as our main technologies, but we also deal with other ones such as Java, Swift, Objective C, Go and Node.js, when there’s an opportunity to do so. We’re also keeping an eye on the wonderful Elixir technology, which is…