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The intended audience for this article is undergrad students who already have a good grasp of Java, or seasoned Java developers who would like to explore an in-depth analysis of various hash table implementations that use Open Addressing. The reader should be familiar with Java generics, collections, basic data…
Hi'ya I'm Bryan, and this is my collection of projects, ideas, thoughts, feelings, opinions, ramblings, concepts, concerns, notions, conclusions, blurbs, and schemes, to name a few.
Today is a big day for us – IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1, our first release of the year, is available! Download it from our website or using the Toolbox App. You can also upgrade from inside the IDE or use sn
In this blog post, I will show you the process of combining and converting a list of markdown files into kindle supported ebook (.mobi) format.
I was recently able to make a minimal example that reproduced a Celery memory leak. The memory leak would happen on the main Celery worker process that’s forked to make child processes, which makes the leak especially bad. Issue #4843 has been around for 3+ years and has 140+ comments, so this one has been causing a…
Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Lisper got to sit and wonder, (Y (Y Y))? Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Lisper got to tell himself he understand. -- Kurt Vonnegut, modified by Darius Bacon
When learning a new programming language, I like having a well defined yet non-trivial problem to solve. Conway’s Game of Life (GoL) fits this definition. It has enough depth to uncover various tradeoffs. So naturally, when I picked up Chisel hardware description language (HDL), I wanted to build Game of Life in FPGA…
does your ~/bin spark joy?
Common Lisp is one of the few languages which is both dynamic and also gives you a full native compiler and the ability to declare types ...
Co-authored with Dr Paidi O’Raghallaigh and Dr Stephen McCarthy at Cork University Business School as part of my PhD studies, and originally published by Cutter Consortium’s Business Agility …
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How to write better bash scripts by replacing if-statements with something much more elegant
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Here are the slides of my talk “The dawn of formalized mathematics” from the 8th European Congress of Mathematics , which is taking place online and in Protorož, Slovenia, from June 20 to 26, 2021:
Writing Rust is pretty neat. But you know what’s even neater? Continuously testing Rust, releasing Rust, and eventually, shipping Rust to production. And for that, we want more than plug-in for a c...
Dynamic, functional programming languages like Clojure are sometimes considered “slower” than their statically-typed and/or OO counterparts, due to facilities like dynamic function disp…
What are the pros and cons of using Rust for production applications? Find out in our interview with Benjamin Chastanier, a senior software engineer at Qovery.
Or, “how not to GIS”.
With the unprecedented advances of modern machine learning comes the tantalizing possibility of smart data-driven autonomous systems across a broad range of real-world settings. However, is machine learning (especially deep learning) really ready to be deployed in safety-critical systems?
The ubiquitous IEEE floating-point standard defines two numbers to represent zero, the positive and the negative zeros. You also have the positive and negative infinity. If you compute the inverse of the positive zero, you get the positive infinity. If you compute the inverse of the negative zero, you get the negative…
I’ve been reading John Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design . At one point in the book, he gives this advice about code comments: Unfortunately, many…
Dockerfiles are de facto standard for creating container images. In this article I highlight some issues with this approach and I propose building container images with Nix.
Excel has new LAMBDA functions
Quite a while back I wrote a larger article on the algebraic foundation of software patterns which also covered the MapReduce algorithm .
That’s the headline for my latest project (with Tomas Petricek), presented at HATRA. [paper] [recorded talk] With this work I am finally confronting the demon cursing my work: version control. If w…
After showing an impressive demo last year and unleashing recently with the UE5 preview, Nanite is all the rage these days. I just had to go in and have some fun trying to figure it out and explain…
Panfrost, the open source driver for Arm Mali, now supports OpenGL ES 3.1 on both Midgard (Mali T760 and newer) and Bifrost (Mali G31, G52, G72) GPUs,
