Something amazing happened to me recently! I started knitting again, something that I have not done for years! I used to really love knitting as a kid and a teenager even. I knitted sweaters for my neighbor’s baby and even sweaters, hats and scarfs for myself. Just asked my mom to find a picture of […]
Not all opinions
For all readers a bit less “in” the tech scene: an interesting thing happened in the last few days. First Paul Graham tweeted: If Trump wins, I’m joining the Resistance. — Paul Graham (@paulg) October 11, 2016 Understandably, people asked him to start by denouncing one of his partners, Peter Thiel, a known Trump supporter. […]
On codes of conduct
I know it has been forever since I wrote something! It is summer and I am working at MSR and I have picked up few new side projects, and more excuses 🙂 But this topic has been on my to write list for a long time, so let’s go and talk about the idea of […]
I am going to stop saying I taught myself programming when I was 10 and maybe you should too
This post is about the strange idea in the programming/computer science community to brag about have taught yourself programming at a young age. It is a long post! The tl;dr is the title 🙂 The craziness of the self taught 10 year old Before I will explain why this strange myth can be harmful and […]
Performance versus elegant code, a never ending trade off [Desiderius part #19]
Generating with constraints So, the next step, actually generating things. As I wrote last week, my strategy first was to generate entirely random hands. But! I realized that if we do that, we make some assumptions about our partner, because they will have an average hand. I then wanted to generate a random hand for […]
