Clippings

On choosing a college | Seth’s Blog Here’s a different way to look at it, one that we can broaden into an insight about adult decisions about where to work, where to live, who to hang out with. There are two parts: Are the people this place attracts the sort of people I want to spend time with and become more like? Is the system that is in place here one that pushes and cajoles and processes people to become more like the kind of person I’d like to be?...

Life is too short to read a bad book. — James Joyce

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes Yahoo Pipes—or, officially, Pipes by Yahoo!, a rare switcheroo of the company’s name—was a service that offered all that and more in a single platform. Individual “Pipes,” as it were, were both personal and public—the service seemed like a portent of the future that techno-utopians were then predicting. But like many great products and services of its time, it never quite came to pass....

The Beauty of Unicode: Zero-Width Characters Did you know that there are five characters that have zero width? What could be their purpose? Let’s sort it out… See examples in the linked article. Zero-width space (U+200B) The zero-width space can be used to enable line wrapping in long words, when using languages that don’t use spaces to separate words, or after certain characters like a slash /. Most applications treat the zero-width space like a regular space for word wrapping purposes, even though it is not visible....

clitic (plural clitics) (linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word). e.g. It’s, should’ve, shouldn’t’ve. There are 2 reasons [for why/when clitics can be applied] Syntatic Gap — A clitic implies another word shoud follow e.g. “Who do you think you’re _____?” Stress patterns — These forms are generaly unsrtesse or week....

Which Face Is Real? Which Face Is Real has been developed by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington as part of the Calling Bullshit project. All images are either computer-generated from [thispersondoesnotexist.com](http://thispersondoesnotexist.com/} using the StyleGAN software, or real photographs from the FFHQ dataset of Creative Commons and public domain images.

It’s important to understand that recruiters and hiring managers are often looking for concrete evidence of your accomplishments in previous roles. Quantifying your achievements means providing specific, numerical data to illustrate the impact you’ve made. Here’s how you can effectively do this: Use Numbers and Metrics: Quantify your impact with data, e.g., “Reduced website load times by 40% through optimised code.” Project Successes: Highlight successful projects, e.g., “Led a team of 5 to develop a new application, delivered 3 weeks ahead of schedule....

The Little Book of Deep Learning This book is a short introduction to deep learning for readers with a STEM background, originally designed to be read on a phone screen.

Short teaser Have you ever heard the story of the procrastinating robot on Mars? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie Peterson🤷🏻‍♂️ (@thatmakessensetome) Expanded story Hundreds of people asked me to elaborate on the strategies. Thrashing refers to the computational process of using 100% of your CPU power to decided what task to do and move stuff around without making progress on it and getting stuck in a loop, a computational loop....

Messaging Patterns Overview - Enterprise Integration Patterns This pattern catalog describes 65 integration patterns, collected from many integration projects since 2002. The patterns provide technology-independent design guidance for developers and architects to describe and develop robust integration solutions. The inspiration to document these patterns came when we struggled through multiple integration vendors’ product documentation just to realize later that many of the underlying concepts were quite similar.