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"The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop. It tells the history of computing by following J.C.R Licklider. As one of the directors of ARPA, he was responsible for funding research…

Oh cool need to think about this a bit more. I’ll see you in the slack channel :)

Nice I'll check it out! I'm just going to throw out another problem since you guys are here :) The current batch process joins some tables before sending data to elasticsearch. Thi…

I just started using kSQL at work to build a data pipeline from Postgres to Elasticsearch. This will be replacing our error-prone batch processes. So far it has been a really nice …

I really like this textbook that was used in my undergrad networking course. https://book.systemsapproach.org/index.html The “perspective” sections at the end of every chapter are …

Cool seeing this post tonight. I just finished implementing a router for my networks class like 30 minutes ago. https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/wi21/cse123-a/project.html We use th…

I have been using CDK at work and it is fantastic. It feels like React for Infrastructure. I used to write raw Cloudformation at my last internship, and being able to write Typescr…

I'm setting up a blog soon. I'm planning on using pandoc and some shell scripts to generate the html from markdown and host on github pages.

The Dream Machine might be my favorite book of all time.

I would like to see him on lex fridman's podcast

Coachella is being delayed till October.

At my school there is a 2 unit class that you must take along with the intro DS&A course that teaches bash, vim, git, testing, etc. It was definitely the class that helped me the m…

Ya this is a good clip. https://youtu.be/75fGNLFAoIc

This is not an answer but on a similar note, has anyone watched the latest Joe Rogan Experience with Daryl Davis. He is a black man who convinced Klan Members to leave the KKK. Ama…

Have you tried the CDK yet instead of using Troposphere?

Look up "edit distance"... it is one of the first problems an Algorithms course will discuss that can be solved by dynamic programming. But ya, no way anyone is coming up with that…

could you elaborate

I have been using Notable. https://github.com/notable/notable https://notable.md/

I think the fact that Swift has first-class automatic differentiation is an even bigger deal than the fact that it is strongly-typed. Here is an interesting write-up about it... ht…

r/bodybuilding is actually pretty hilarious, one of the best communities on reddit imo.

stuck at the airport?

"Python, Javascript, or Rust" I feel like Rust does not belong in this list. Why would you introduce a non-programmer to Rust?

I think most people use their phone before putting on their outfit, not their computers. Generally I agree that more things should be mobile-friendly websites, but in this case I t…

Just saw a great youtube video about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Vn9V-tRCo

Create a file format for the data and connect to the user's Google Drive or Dropbox.