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I'm busy reading a book [0] by Keith Devlin about the correspondence between Pascal and Fermat. It's called the unfinished game and has been really good so far. It goes through the…

I second this. I joined a second hand Lego Whatsapp group a while ago and that's made it far more affordable.

My key takeaway from the book is the importance of conceptual integrity and how hard this is to achieve the bigger the team. I think this is just as true today as it ever has been …

On the human readability concern, we use protobuf converted to text format. It looks JSON like so very readable and comes with all the other benefits of protobuf.

I was going to mention Peter Naurs paper as well. It's fundamentally changed the way I think about software. The projects I've seen that are in the most trouble are those where the…

Have a look at a site called neetcode. They offer collections of leetcode problems that are representative of what you'd see in an interview. They have tutorial videos for each pro…

Completely agree. Beyond being of interest in its own right, "There exists" is a prerequisite for further work in finding a practical approach to find the path.

In regards to a career as a quant, the top firms may focus on "young geniuses" but there will be plenty of places where your profile would be just fine. It's a broad industry!

That sounds interesting. Do you have a link?

There's a book on financial calculus by Rennie and Baxter [0] that gave me very good intuition on the ideas behind option pricing. It starts with the binomial model and moves on to…

Not the op, but I started using parquet instead of CSV because the types of the columns are preserved. At one point I was caching data to CSV but when you load the CSV again the ty…

This book [0] has some really nice ideas in it. I have a 6 year old and 2 year old and I'm also on the look out for ways to develop a love of mathematics. I've found mathematical i…

I actually got some useful ideas on previous hackernews threads on fatherhood and parenting. There were usually one or two ideas that resonated with me. I suspect the points that r…

In my last few projects I've made it possible to record inputs and outputs of applications and persist the data to disk. I've written tests that use the recorded inputs and compare…

I grew up in a house full of books that shaped my interests. I have two young children and I'm building up a library for them. I'm curious to know what books stood out in your chil…

There's a series of database moocs from Stanford that look good [0]. I'd start off by learning about the relational model as a foundation and after that exploring non relational DB…

There's a book called Longitude by Dava Sobel which is about how the problem of determining longitude was solved. The Galiilean moons approach is discussed in the book. I'm busy re…

Nice! I've worked with a few similar real world payoff languages. This paper discusses one of them: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/haskell-barclays/

You could try the Stanford database moocs [0], they're on EdX as well. This will focus more on the relational model, SQL and database fundamentals. These are the fundamentals you n…

There's a 99% visible episode [1] on this very issue. Worth a listen! [1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sound-and-health-hosp...

If you want to display analytics on a dashboard I would generate materialized views from your underlying data first and then display that. Try and precalculate as much as possible …

There's a popular math book called Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz which is about the story of calculus. It's really good and may help bring the subject to life as opposed to ro…

I used it for exactly this in my previous role. I automated a lot of tasks and built tools for my previous team. Most of them weren't Python programmers so I used gooey to create s…