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If you are interested in gradually making a big career change, you could look into biotech. I’ve seen people start out as regular developers in small / mid-size biotech companies a…

Thank you for recommending "From Mathematics to Generic Programming"! I wasn’t aware of this book.

Elements of Programming by Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones gives a very engaging introduction to applying basic abstract algebra to algorithm design. http://elementsofprogrammi…

I use C++ and Rust. Unfortunately, there are no persistent versions of the data structures I need available in any language (using dynamic FM-index as an example again). It is just…

That’s right. Our data structures are designed for working with large amounts of compressed text (dynamic FM-Index is one example). They are pretty hard to implement so making a pe…

I am strongly considering buying a copy of your book and giving data-oriented programming a go in my day job. My only hesitation is data immutability. I work in a data-intensive sc…

Israel Gelfand wrote a number of amazing books covering many areas of high school math.

Sadly, the criminal gang that runs Russia is not interested in the economic prosperity of its citizens. They want ordinary people to stay poor and isolated since this makes them so…

Have you considered monoid? It’s a fantastic font with ligatures. https://larsenwork.com/monoid/

This article seems to fit the template: Here are some abstract reasons why paradigm X is bad, and here is a class of problems that have a more straightforward solution in paradigm …

Great point. I had two laptops with pre-installed Linux. Both were not even cross-update compatible. Video driver of my System76 laptop broke after the first major Ubuntu update. X…

I will happily swap my Mac for a laptop that could reliably run Linux if I ever find one. I had a machine from System 76 where a video driver would break with every major Ubuntu up…