Hey there! This post highlights a variety of interests—from making your system fault-tolerant with the bulkhead pattern and setting up a Mac for development, to diving into driverless racing and building neural networks in Python. There’s also advice on video calls, email analysis, poker strategy, destressing after work, and even secrets to great management. Dive in and explore!
- The Bulkhead Pattern: How To Make Your System Fault-tolerant: Need resilience in your system? Look no further than the bulkhead pattern which is about creating isolation in various parts of your system.
- Driverless racing is real, terrible, and strangely exciting: The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League proves it’s possible, just very hard.
- macOS Setup Guide: This guide covers the basics of setting up a development environment on a new Mac. Whether you are an experienced programmer or not, this guide is intended for everyone to use as a reference for setting up your environment or installing languages/libraries.
- Create a sprinkler system: The objective of this tutorial is to create and control a sprinkler system with a Raspberry PI.
- Building a Feedforward Neural Network from Scratch in Python: In this post, we will see how to implement the feedforward neural network from scratch in python. This is a follow up to my previous post on the feedforward neural networks.
- Inovelli:
- Johns Hopkins Poker Course: This intersession course aims to take students from novices who may know nothing about poker to above average players, in two weeks. The course will utilize hand examples and discussions of common poker situations to study the fundamentals of the game. The math, combinatoric, and game-theoretical aspects of poker will be covered, with practical examples of every concept. Lectures will focus on core concepts in Texas Hold `em, with an emphasis on cash games. Tournament-specific concepts will be covered towards the end. There will be a guest lecture by 2005 WSOP Main Event runner up Steve Dannenmann, whose live tournament winnings exceed $4 million. The course culminated with a poker tournament at the instructor’s home at the end of intersession.
- How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face: I spent way too long figuring out the how to make video calls feel natural. Here’s the best advice I came up with.
- Analyzing Your Email with SQL: Want to achieve Inbox Zero? Use SQL to download your email data, and analyze who sends you messages and your response times.
- Design Docs at Google: One of the key elements of Google’s software engineering culture is the use of design docs for defining software designs. These are…
- Newsletter Guide.org: A 201 guide for taking your newsletters to the next level—growing the lists, making money, and more.
- 6 Ways to Shake Off the Workday So It Doesn’t Ruin Your Precious Evening: Shifting out of work mode at the end of the day isn’t always easy. Here’s how to destress after work so you can enjoy your evening.
- This Is How To Be A Great Manager: 4 Powerful Secrets From Research: Gallup did the most extensive study of what makes a successful manager. And what they learned will definitely surprise you…
- Sales is Research: — Kevin Yien.
- How to Build Engineering Strategy: If you read the theory behind frameworks for setting goals (e.g., OKRs), you will usually find that strategy and objectives should be cascaded down. This approach starts with the company’s mission…
- How Might We Learn?: On an immersive future of learning
- HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm: The documents reveal how Google Search is using, or has used, clicks, links, content, entities, Chrome data and more for ranking.
- How I run a software book club:
- Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape: Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read.