I believe a large part of getting better at coding is reading about good coding practices and simply reading other developers' code, regardless of its quality. For example when I was in junior college a…
I glanced at the Clive Thompson article. I disagree. I feel movements like "software carpentry" (https://software-carpentry.org) are a good indicator of what mass computer literacy will look like in the workplace and…
A problem I found with article is the talk of opacity of statistics techniques in the guise of "big data" used in social media corporations. Statistics used by individuals and companies is nothing new. As a…
Watching "Rogue One," the real-world historical parallel that came to my head was that Galen Erso was modelled after Werner Heisenberg and Nazi A-bomb programme. I was surprised, Heisenberg was not mentioned in the…
Love my Pebble. Has almost everything I wanted in a watch. Found it a pity that on the marketing front, Pebble never seemed to get top of mind (or anything near there). My current's watch's display is starting to shred.…
Although I have used both CPython and Stackless.py, the specific differences are fading from my memory. While working on a Go style select() for stackless.py I recall there were minor differences in how the runnable…
I find with all the voice APIs out there, I would recommend choosing one and diving in. One of the skills is getting comfortable with the interactions between the voice API and the back-end.
And there is Margaret Thatcher, who had a Bachelors in Science: Chemistry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher#Early_life_a...). Canada's former P.M Stephen Harper, in his early twenties, was a computer…
Well the Trudeau government just earmarked 50 million for five years to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
@trtobe: you could ask the supermarkets. Doesn't hurt. Perhaps you would have better luck promoting this idea with grocery stores that have loyalty cards? Loyalty cards I suppose are already used to track specific users…
Hi Mandela: By Siri, I am assuming your mean some application that understands speech and carries out commands like answering queries, or carrying out a command? Answering queries is specific domain of NLP. As is…
Case studies provide all the required information in the case itself. Do you believe this to be right? The case study is a learning tool. The required information is a starting point. It is up to the student to use the…
This idea reminds me of the "Mr. Apology" answering machine project. Poignant stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Bridge
Isn't web assembly going to help address many of these problems?
I am not sure how your model differs from online Hotel companies in North America? By "Uberlike" do you mean surge pricing? More questions. Do you know if Airbnb have problems booking rooms in Africa? What is the…
My question: do parents really save money from "Kids eat free" deals? Is the average cost of the meal for the adult higher? Also how do you make revenue and profit on this concept?
I have thought about this problem and like your goals. Like @rkho stated, re-scanning is a pain. Perhaps if you could somehow get buy-in with the grocery store: the store sends an electronic copy of the bill that can be…
One problem with Zippy would be it contending with a myriad of laws stemming from whether Zippy is a vehicle, especially a motorized vehicle on a sidewalk. Let's ignore the unmanned part for now. "Having small items…
"Although I certainly believe that any member of our highly digital society should be familiar with how these platforms work, universal code literacy won’t solve our employment crisis any more than the universal ability…
I don't know much about Zapier but IFTTT seems to me to be more like the infra-structure for software agents. IFTTT you are still creating recipes. I would like to say that Agent 2.0 would look like the Knowledge…
The select algorithm is described in Robert Pike's "The Implementation of Newsqueak." You may want to take a look at a paper called "Scalable Join Patterns" which is about implementing Join Patterns in C#. Join patterns…
Great article! As a kid, I would read "Future" Magazine. What was cool was each issue featured a full page colour poster. That is where I discovered Syd Mead.
I try my best to brush and floss after a meal. Since I eat meals at work, likewise I'll brush and floss.
Not necessarily. All other things being equal, a startup can enter a big market that is 1) fragmented 2) the start-up has few or weak competitors. I think what a start-up is looking for are big untapped markets.
As many already suggested, having documentation and a "chaperone" are a great start. On the technical front, found Docker to be a god-send for painlessly giving a new employee their own copy of the production…
I believe a large part of getting better at coding is reading about good coding practices and simply reading other developers' code, regardless of its quality. For example when I was in junior college a…
I glanced at the Clive Thompson article. I disagree. I feel movements like "software carpentry" (https://software-carpentry.org) are a good indicator of what mass computer literacy will look like in the workplace and…
A problem I found with article is the talk of opacity of statistics techniques in the guise of "big data" used in social media corporations. Statistics used by individuals and companies is nothing new. As a…
Watching "Rogue One," the real-world historical parallel that came to my head was that Galen Erso was modelled after Werner Heisenberg and Nazi A-bomb programme. I was surprised, Heisenberg was not mentioned in the…
Love my Pebble. Has almost everything I wanted in a watch. Found it a pity that on the marketing front, Pebble never seemed to get top of mind (or anything near there). My current's watch's display is starting to shred.…
Although I have used both CPython and Stackless.py, the specific differences are fading from my memory. While working on a Go style select() for stackless.py I recall there were minor differences in how the runnable…
I find with all the voice APIs out there, I would recommend choosing one and diving in. One of the skills is getting comfortable with the interactions between the voice API and the back-end.
And there is Margaret Thatcher, who had a Bachelors in Science: Chemistry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher#Early_life_a...). Canada's former P.M Stephen Harper, in his early twenties, was a computer…
Well the Trudeau government just earmarked 50 million for five years to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
@trtobe: you could ask the supermarkets. Doesn't hurt. Perhaps you would have better luck promoting this idea with grocery stores that have loyalty cards? Loyalty cards I suppose are already used to track specific users…
Hi Mandela: By Siri, I am assuming your mean some application that understands speech and carries out commands like answering queries, or carrying out a command? Answering queries is specific domain of NLP. As is…
Case studies provide all the required information in the case itself. Do you believe this to be right? The case study is a learning tool. The required information is a starting point. It is up to the student to use the…
This idea reminds me of the "Mr. Apology" answering machine project. Poignant stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Bridge
Isn't web assembly going to help address many of these problems?
I am not sure how your model differs from online Hotel companies in North America? By "Uberlike" do you mean surge pricing? More questions. Do you know if Airbnb have problems booking rooms in Africa? What is the…
My question: do parents really save money from "Kids eat free" deals? Is the average cost of the meal for the adult higher? Also how do you make revenue and profit on this concept?
I have thought about this problem and like your goals. Like @rkho stated, re-scanning is a pain. Perhaps if you could somehow get buy-in with the grocery store: the store sends an electronic copy of the bill that can be…
One problem with Zippy would be it contending with a myriad of laws stemming from whether Zippy is a vehicle, especially a motorized vehicle on a sidewalk. Let's ignore the unmanned part for now. "Having small items…
"Although I certainly believe that any member of our highly digital society should be familiar with how these platforms work, universal code literacy won’t solve our employment crisis any more than the universal ability…
I don't know much about Zapier but IFTTT seems to me to be more like the infra-structure for software agents. IFTTT you are still creating recipes. I would like to say that Agent 2.0 would look like the Knowledge…
The select algorithm is described in Robert Pike's "The Implementation of Newsqueak." You may want to take a look at a paper called "Scalable Join Patterns" which is about implementing Join Patterns in C#. Join patterns…
Great article! As a kid, I would read "Future" Magazine. What was cool was each issue featured a full page colour poster. That is where I discovered Syd Mead.
I try my best to brush and floss after a meal. Since I eat meals at work, likewise I'll brush and floss.
Not necessarily. All other things being equal, a startup can enter a big market that is 1) fragmented 2) the start-up has few or weak competitors. I think what a start-up is looking for are big untapped markets.
As many already suggested, having documentation and a "chaperone" are a great start. On the technical front, found Docker to be a god-send for painlessly giving a new employee their own copy of the production…