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In general, a good place to start looking for new papers to read is the reference list of a paper, textbook, or Wikipedia article that interests you. Here's one I enjoyed: "Congest…

James, Witten, Hastie, and Tibshirani, "An Introduction to Statistical Learning." Available for download: http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/ISL/ Taylor and Karlin, "An I…

Which hackathon is this? This one? https://covid-global-hackathon.devpost.com/

Related question: are there ways to get involved in research on the side, rather than as a full-time, multi-year commitment?

What distinguishes senior practitioners from juniors, in software development and in other crafts, is the number of errors they've already made and the lessons they learned from th…

> These days, even those options are gone. On Android, you can distribute, download, and install .apk files outside of the Play Store [1]. There's also an app called f-droid [2] wh…

You may want to hold off on both. SICP uses Scheme, a dialect of Lisp. Neither it nor Haskell closely resembles Python, and the differences may confuse rather than illuminate. That…

That appears to be the Intro to Operating Systems course from the Georgia Tech OMSCS program. Udacity also hosts the GT Advanced Operating Systems course: https://www.udacity.com/c…

> I guess I would like to have a solution that not only synchronises across all platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS), but most importantly is secure as my notes can contain sensi…

+1 for org-mode. Org-mode files are tree-structured, so anything you can structure as a tree should work well with org-mode. The navigation controls work nicely: expanding/collapsi…

See also this work-in-progress ENIAC simulator: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/eniac/

Can a monorepo support module- or subdirectory-level ownership controls? Or do teams using a monorepo just do without them? Partially answering my own question: SVN, recommended in…

More Multics resources here: https://www.multicians.org/biblio.html

And Org mode.

From an article [0] published in last month's CACM, describing attempts by three 2016 conferences to anonymize papers: We find that anonymization is imperfect but fairly effective:…