Travel and Talks — Belgium and the Netherlands

I'm travelling next week to Belgium and the Netherlands, and have several talks scheduled; I'd love to see you at one of them.

• Brussels, June 14, 6:30–8:30 pm at the Big Data and Ethics Meetup. I'll be giving a short talk titled ‘Why Recommend What to Who?’, based on my RecSys 2016 paper with Martijn Willemsen and some additional work.
• Mons, June 19, 2–4 pm, a research seminar at UCL Mons.
• Den Bosch, June 20, 12:30 pm, research seminar at JADS.
• Delft, June 26, 2pm, a research talk at the Delft RecSys Meetup; Julián Urbano will also be speaking.

Dynamic Dispatch is Control Flow

In 2010, I saw a tweet that changed how I think about programming. I do not remember who tweeted it, and I have been unable to locate it again, but its gist was “The Tao of OOP is that dynamic dispatch is control flow”.

This is true, and it creates an entirely different way of thinking about designing objects. I also find it applies somewhat to functional programming.

Reading on Productivity

There are a number of resources that I have found useful in thinking about productivity processes and tools.

Holes

My productivity system is working fairly well at a few levels: I feel like my day-to-day and weekly tactical planning are in good shape, as well as my pipeline management and some medium-term planning. However, there are a couple of notable holes that I'm still looking to fill.

One Tweet Research

I spent the day yesterday at the NSF CISE CAREER workshop. It was excellent, and I strongly encourage any young US CS faculty to go to a future installment or watch the online videos if a CAREER proposal is in their future.