How-To Geek on MSN

How stats made programming click for me

Spreadsheets are still useful, but if you do a lot of work with numbers, you'll realize that they have limitations.
Inverse

25 Years Later, Hitman Is Everything It Wanted To Be

The Hitman series, and its developer IO Interactive, celebrate its 25 anniversary this month. We look back on the iconic ...
Communications of the ACM

The TRIPS Project

This article provides a retrospective on one such case: the TRIPS project at the University of Texas at Austin. This project started with early funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of ...
Brain Station Advanced on MSNOpinion

The Math Problem You MUST Solve Without Calculus

This puzzle looks like it needs calculus… but you’re not allowed to use it. I explore alternative methods to get the answer ...

Palantir uses the '5 Whys' approach to problem solving — here's how it works

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is known for his outspokenness. But it's the simplest of questions that might be behind the company's ...

Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...
Harvard Business Review

Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers

The idea that companies must “delight” their customers has become so entrenched that managers rarely examine it. But ask yourself this: How often does someone patronize a company specifically because ...