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Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise
(Alternate Title: How to Shut Up the Ubuntu MOTD, the Long Way) Sometimes, the simplest questions take you on exciting journies. This was, in...
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What Makes a Good Conversation?
This blog post is about the NAACL 2019 paper What makes a good conversation? How controllable attributes affect human judgments by Abigail See, Stephen Rolle...
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A Codebase Is an Organism (2014)
Here's what no one tells you when you graduate with a degree in computer science and take up a job in software engineering:
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Consume less, create more
Modern technology makes us consumers instead of creators
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How to return to the flow faster
Do you know that Java is one of the most widespread programming languages right now? This is being used by startups and even large enterprises Continue reading The Best Java Books that Will Fit Different Skill Levels
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How to Start with Machine Learning
In this article, I'd like to tell you how to start with machine learning, and what to do to learn algorithms that will help you to build smart apps.
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Why ElementaryOS Left Medium
Why we left Medium, and how!
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Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post. If you’re unproductive right now Here’s what you should do if you’ve been procrastinating for an entire day: Accept that you won’t do anything today and try not to…
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Dating: A Research Journal, Part 1 (2016)
My journey to finding love using science and data. Part 1 – how to own online dating.
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Interslavic Language
Introduction to Interslavic — Vvod v medžuslovjansky jeazy — Ввод в меджусловјански језык
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With friends like these
I was going to focus this week on the first task of the 20th Weekly Challenge ...but what can I say? The task was a break a string specified on the command-line into runs of identical characters:
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Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde
Meet two brothers working to preserve the Fulani language and the culture embedded within it.
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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
In August of 2015, my hands stopped working. This is what happened next.
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Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn
When I was 16 I was visited by a man who said he had come from the future. He had traveled twenty years back to 1999 to sit down with me and have a chat. We talked for an hour...
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Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒 and considering fixes
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Producing an Ebook, Step by Step
A detailed step-by-step description of the complete process of producing an ebook for Standard Ebooks, start to finish.
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Composing better emails
Lazarus Lazaridis’ personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats.
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How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” — Shel Silverstein Have you ever felt like your dreams are bigger than you are? Like wanting to travel to exotic…
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When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right
“There’s this flat-earther documentary called BEHIND THE CURVE,” my wife said. “We have to watch it!” Of course we did. My wife will occasionally get into huge debates…
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Packed with evidence-based strategies, Atomic Habits will teach you how to make small changes that will transform your habits and deliver amazing results.
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One week of empathy training
I've spent a week cosplaying as a disabled user. And I hate it. A couple of months ago, I attended a private talk given by a disabled colleague of mine. "Everyone should believe disabled people's stories about accessibility problems," she said. "But, given that people don't, here's what I want you to do. Spend one…
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How I Side Project
This post started out as a long-form response to this tweet by Raj Kunkolienkar:
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On Writing a C++ Book
On writing a technical book for experienced programmers.
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Misunderstanding Dunning-Kruger
There is, apparently, an increase recently in interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Washington Post writes about this recently, making the obvious political observation (having to do with the current occupant of the White House). It's great that there is public interest in an important psychological phenomenon…