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Because it's a Strange Loop.
Hmm, yes, I can see a product idea here: Klein bottle waste baskets. When your waste basket is nonorientable, life becomes much simpler. Everything is both inside and outside the trash.
Is mastering regex simply a form of memorization? There doesn't seem to be any logical pattern to the various flags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenford_Myers [1]
The anecdote in the beginning of the book, where he poses a simple question - how many test cases can you write for this simple program? about the geometry of a triangle - is mind-blowing, and sticks in my mind many years after reading it.
He says most people he gave it to, even experienced devs, did somewhat poorly or just average on it. I gave it as a test to a team (of juniors) on a project I was leading, once, and it made them see some light. We subsequently went on to deliver a pretty well-tested project.
[1] Excerpts:
[ Glenford Myers (born December 12, 1946) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He founded two successful high-tech companies (RadiSys and IP Fabrics), authored eight textbooks in the computer sciences, and made important contributions in microprocessor architecture. He holds a number of patents, including the original patent on "register scoreboarding" in microprocessor chips.[1] He has a BS in electrical engineering from Clarkson University, an MS in computer science from Syracuse University, and a PhD in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. ]
[ During this period, Myers also authored his first four books, including The Art of Software Testing, a book that became a classic and a best-seller in the computer science field, staying in print for 26 years before it was replaced by a second edition in 2004.[3] Myers also served as a lecturer in computer science at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he taught graduate-level courses in computer science. Years later, he was the 1988 recipient of the J.-D. Warnier Prize for his contributions to the field of software engineering. ]
Can someone recommend a good book on linear algebra for somebody that took it in college but needs a refresher plus some advanced linear algebra concepts for machine learning?
Each short lecture had a 'Why didn't they tell me that in college!' kind of insight. Transformations, determinants, dot products, cross products everything made sense in a visual way.
I just quickly hacked together this query which pulls out all amazon URLs in post answers:
SELECT REGEXP_EXTRACT(body, r'[^a-z](http[a-z\:\-\_0-9\/\.]+amazon[a-z\:\-\_0-9\/\.]*)[^a-z]') AS link, COUNT(1)
FROM [bigquery-public-data:stackoverflow.posts_answers]
GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC LIMIT 20
Is there any reason to expect this distribution to vary much from "top selling" ?