January 2016 Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonder about this. Is life actually short, or are we really complaining about its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel life … Read more
Here’s a question that comes up a lot. It goes something like: “I’ve only worked 10 months at this job, and it’s terrible. If I look for a new job now, will my short tenure be a red flag?” Or, … Read more
In my lectures, I emphasize that deep learning is really good for unstructured data (essentially, that’s the opposite of tabular data). Deep learning is sometimes referred to as “representation learning” because its strength is the ability to learn the feature … Read more
The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time, which is infinitely more valuable. If you want to learn how to live a good life, there are few … Read more
Tech blog: 2022-05-08 If you make your own website, consider making short URLs. This is not about a URL shortener. This is about making your original URLs short in the first place. Instead of: yoursite.com/blog/2022/05/08/short-urls-why-and-how.html… consider just: yoursite.com/short Why? Short … Read more
It’s Saturday, March 5th 2022 and I can’t help myself, so here’s an edited and revised version of an imaginary conversation I had earlier this week: Enjoy! About ten years ago: bank: hey, you can get digital statements now, wanna … Read more
The Phaistos Disc – see below Every so often a news article will make the rounds of the internet – or, for that matter, a paper will be published in an academic journal – presenting a new ‘decipherment’ of an … Read more
When committing to a piece of software, favor those created by people who value backward compatibility. By “piece of software,” I mean any source code dependencies (libraries, frameworks), runtime dependencies (e.g., databases, web servers), or tools (e.g., editors). Different projects … Read more
Welcome to our second post on Template Haskell! Today we will take a quick look at typed Template Haskell. This article assumes some familiarity with Template Haskell (TH) already. If this is your first journey with TH, then check out … Read more
To date, users have downloaded over 140 billion apps to their iPhones.¹ The iPhone’s success is tied to its ecosystem of third-party apps. When the App Store debuted in 2008, all apps were written in a programming language that few … Read more