Reading Land of Lisp[0].
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#132Tensorflow (v2), numpy, and related stuff for image processing. I kind of ignored the whole deep learning revolution, though I had a very basic understanding of NNs from a long time ago. It's fun to play with, and I'm getting an intuition for what sorts of problems NNs are likely to help with.
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#133awk.
One too many times have I though to myself that a just little bit of awk might go a long way to help with extracting information from a pile of data.
Now working my way through Effective awk programming. So far, no regrets.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/index.htm...
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#134C++. I want to make Node.js addons
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#135Model Thinking, from coursera.
A funny coincidence; last week I reached the... SIS epidemiology model! Rarely so relevant.
It's quite interesting. Two of the things that fascinated me most so far are emergent properties (such as in cellular automata models), and what he calls the models' "fertility".
As an example, with a few adjustments (ie the "recovery rate" becomes a "churn rate", etc) the SIS model could be adapted in marketing, viral or not, to measure an existing campaign's efficiency, or try to predict the means a future one might require based on different assumptions and goals.
Also acted as a nice statistics 101 refresher / intro
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
>choosing it over C++ or Rust for fair and sensible reasons I don't think such reasons exist. I don't think C/C++ should be used when superior alternatives exist (Rust). It's like smoking; you're just hurting yourself. Unless you're being like the programming equivalent of a steam engine enthusiast or a historian. (In a world where most of the industry is still using steam engines cuz we're in too deep and must ride…
There are plenty of reasons to still learn C even if better alternatives exist for most new projects. There’s so much important software out there in C (and C++), for example the Linux kernel.
And C is still king in many domains, eg embedded development.
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#137I enjoy learning, so I try to learn new things as part of my day to day routine to keep things interesting.
I just started following OCW's Finance Theory class and I'm starting to read the text book on corporate finance and watching a lecture a day during lunch. I've always been interested in economics, so this is just learning for learning's sake. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-40...
I'm just about done reading "A Look at Boulder: From Settlement to City," about the history of Boulder County, CO. Again, in this case I'm interested in local history, so I'm just reading it before bed for fun.
Two weeks ago I installed FreeBSD on a spare hard drive, and I've been reading through the handbook and learning how to do various tasks as they come up.
I'm writing a Spotify client in Common Lisp, so I'm learning about the Spotify API and architecture. The beginnings of the library are on Github, but right now it's really just a utility library for making API calls, and not much of a client. This started as the thought, "It'd be neat to have a library to control Spotify from the REPL," and is turning into a full client because spotify-tui is the only client I can find on FreeBSD. https://github.com/jl2/cl-spotify/
At work I've been helping the test team write functional tests for some Windows software, which I haven't used in years, so the past week I was re-learning "just enough" about Windows and Python's win32com library, and learning about AutoIt for the first time.
I've been learning to track stand on my bike - it's something to do during stoplights.
And I impulse bought a pot roast on Friday, so today or tomorrow I'm going to learn how to cook one.
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#138I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode.
I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies.
A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company coming up soon, so am using my new-found free time to study and, at the very least, be a bit more employable at the end of this pandemic.
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#139I'm learning pentesting for fun. I'm mainly active on hackthebox.eu. I might get my OSCP one day, for fun as well. I do still think the certificate comes in handy despite the fact that I'm applying for web developer positions at the moment. I'm happy I'm learning this though, I'm already noticing that I develop differently, because the little I've learned about pentesting taught me that true cyber criminals are hungr…
I too have an interest in OSINT. Inspired by the work of Bellingcat [1] (who have uncovered some serious warcrimes through their OSINT work).
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#140I started hacking on a browser extension to inject source-maps into requests using HTTP headers this week. It's a dev tools extension which should allow full source-maps to be used in production sites without the usual comment at the end of the file. I've never done dev tools browser extensions before so it's fun to learn about.