Sep 2021 Using Randomness Instead of Coordination? Another Real Example: Load Shedding My rule for when to write a simulator: Simulate anything that involves more than one probability, probabilities over time, or queues. Anything involving probability and/or queues you will … Read more
In the summer of 1930, the anthropologist Margaret Mead and her second husband and fellow anthropologist, Reo Fortune, made their way to the Omaha Reservation in northeastern Nebraska. At age 28, Mead had already gained renown for her ethnographic study … Read more
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How well can LLMs write COBOL? LLMs are fast-changing the way that we write software. Over a million developers now pay for GitHub Copilot and recent breakthroughs in LLM reasoning have brought the dream of a fully AI Software Engineer … Read more
Since the dawn of the times, the only way to implement any effect that has fancy user interface used to be in C++. It would be rather an understatement to say that the C++ API is difficult to use or … Read more
I started my blog originally to help me get to the next level in my career and help establish myself as an authority in the areas of tech that I was focusing on. I liked writing and thought I had … Read more
Recently I noticed that most existing “why you should write a blog” articles (e.g.) have at least one of two shortcomings, according to me: They mostly focus on counterarguments to not starting a blog, rather than positive arguments in favor … Read more
(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) This page has two purposes: to describe how to implement computer language interpreters in general, and in particular to build an interpreter for most of the Scheme dialect of Lisp using Python … Read more
The best way you can contribute to an open source project is to remove lines of code from it. We should endeavor to write code that a novice programmer can easily understand without explanation or that a maintainer can understand … Read more