The Dilemma There are wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. Sackman et. al. found 10:1 ratios. The data showed no correlation between experience and performance.
The idea of a 10x developer is mostly ridiculed in my online circles. That said, some jobs have X years of experience as a requirement. How can we resolve these contradictions?
The major part of the cost of large teams is communication, and system debugging to correct the ill effects of miscommunication....
Inspired to read this comic by the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder film.
Motifs [Gorr] As I stand here now, witnessing with my own eyes the first awkward fumblings of life in the void, I see no weeping god. No tears except those shed by the misshapen creatures around me, minutes old and already begging for death. I see no grand plan at work. No benevolent omnipotence at display....
The Swamp Thing. Image from dccomics.com
Motifs [Blind] Loyalty Their master gone, the un-men pause, uncertain of what to do… They must among themselves for a moment – and, at least, a decision is reached. For all their existence, they have followed their master blindly – wherever he might lead… And there seems no good reason to change that situation now.
Ignorance Divinity, Maine – founded circa 1648 – population: 97 good, god-fearing people – principal industry: scrambling for an existence – principal produce: ignorance and fear....
The Department of Truth | Image Comics. James Tynion IV; Martin Simmonds. imagecomics.com . Accessed Feb 18, 2022. Department of Truth (2020 - present) by James Tynion IV. Image from imagecomics.com
Expecting a modern take on 1984, which I didn’t finish because I lost interest.
Plot Points [Lee Harvey Oswald] The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes....
Crime Drama Ozark’s highlights are Ruth Langmore’s 90s' hip hop playlist, Wendy Byrde’s sociopathic ambition, and Del Rio’s suave. The show follows the Byrde family that has to launder money for the Navarro Cartel. The writers use shortcuts as the show proceeds, and grant excessive plot armor for the Byrde family in subsequent seasons.
’s Bill Dubuque also wrote The Accountant (2016 Film) , which follows a CPA with high-functioning autism who makes his living by uncooking the books of criminal organizations experiencing internal embezzlement....
When it comes to STEM diversity goals, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) tends to be excluded from the URMs under discussion, e.g. .
However, AAPI as a blanket term obscures the struggles of member groups, e.g. \(62\%\) of AAPI adults aged 24 and older have an associate’s degree or higher, compared to 28% of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders of the same age. AA comprises \(\approx 50\) ethnic groups, while PI has \(\approx 20\)....
Snow, Glass, Apples Stumbled onto from Hoopla’s recommendations. flips the script and tells the story from the step mother’s perspective, and she is also the protagonist.
Snow White is a vampire. She fed on her father (consensually?), the King, to the point of him being a shadow of a man. Her stepmother, the Queen, was only 18 when the King died. The Queen had witnessed Snow White’s vampirism, and so she had a servant kill her by carving out her heart and dump her in the forest....
Mental Attitude While Learning Distinguish Mere Facts From Conclusions or Opinions Discriminate between mere statements of facts, necessary conclusions which follow therefrom, and mere opinions which they seem to render reasonable. There’s no need to perform an experiment to verify that the atomic weight of oxygen is 16. That the sum of the angles of a plane triangle equals two right angles is not a mere fact, but an inevitable truth....
Stories of Your Life and Others. Ted Chiang. 2010. ISBN: 9781931520898 . Tower of Babylon Story focused on Hillalum, who lived during the construction of the Tower of Babel .
notes that the Hebrew school version was more elaborate than the Old Testament account, e.g. the tower is so tall that it takes a year to climb, and when a man falls to his death, no one mourns, but when a brick is dropped, the brick-layers weep because it will take a year to replace....
Objective: Learn to read the game and make smart predictions. Reaction times are overrated; perception and prediction rule .
Offensive Playmaking and Scoring tracks the following play types: transition, isolation, pick & roll ball handler, pick & roll roll man, post up, spot up, handoff, cut, off screen and put-backs.
At least these categories provide a baseline for what search terms to use. also has a miscellaneous play type section, so it’ll be interesting to see if a new play-type pops up in the future....
quotes Doug McIlroy:
Those types are not “abstract”; they are as real as int and float.
What is the context of this quote?
A class is a user-defined type provided to represent a concept in the code of a program. Essentially, all language facilities beyond the fundamental types, operators, and statements exist to help define better class or to use them more conveniently....
Beginnings Your shot at intriguing or acclimating the reader. Establish the tone, stylistic manner and attitude in the first few sentences.
The Direct Beginning State the subject in the first sentence, and the thesis in the first paragraph.
Use the first paragraph to define subject or a quick synopsis of the material to come.
The Delayed Beginning An attention-getting device, e.g. anecdote, generalization, vivid description, dramatic incident, paradoxical observation, can serve as the background to your thesis....
The Sandman (1989 - 1996) by Neil Gaiman. Image from dccomics.com
Path to comic: Lucifer (Netflix) -> Lucifer (Comic) -> The Sandman (Comic)
Netflix is also adapting the comic, so interested in how it deviates from the source. Ser Brienne of Tarth will be Lucifer. Hype!
Love Dream: Sister – you know how I felt for Nada one. What I feel for her still....
Day 10 - Advent of Code 2021. adventofcode.com . Accessed Apr 12, 2022. Part I You ask the submarine to determine the best route out of the deep-sea cave, but it only replies:
Syntax error in navigation subsystem on line: all of them The navigation subsystem is made of several lines containing chunks. There are one or more chunks on each line, and chunks contain zero or more other chunks....
Parsing the Command Line lists a couple of libraries. and are the most popular options. Going with as it’s slightly more popular.
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wall #-} module AoC2021Args (Args(..), aocArgParser) where import Options.Applicative import Data.Semigroup ((<>)) data Args = Args { day :: Int } aocArgParser :: Parser Args aocArgParser = Args <$> option auto ( long "day" <> help "The day to run code for. Use '0' to run all of the solutions....
module Main where import qualified AoC2021 (runSolution) import AoC2021Args (Args(..), aocArgParser) import Options.Applicative main :: IO () main = runAoCSolutions =<< execParser opts where opts = info (aocArgParser <**> helper) ( fullDesc <> progDesc "Run solutions for a given DAY of AoC 2021" <> header "A module for running solutions for AoC 2021") runAoCSolutions :: Args -> IO () runAoCSolutions (Args d) = AoC2021.runSolution d
Going to a talk is difficult for everyone because nobody understands the whole thing, but it’s especially difficult for undergraduates because they still expect to.
is a rich resource for understanding scholarly literature. Browse it. Some of the listed items are familiar, e.g. Google Scholar, SCImago, Sci-Hub, but it’d be informative to zoom out to the larger picture, e.g. good alternatives to Google Scholar.
Why Even Read Papers?...
Argument from Consequences If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
Straw Man The essence of this technique is to caricature a position to make it easier to attack.
My opponent is trying to convince you that we evolved from chimpanzees who were swinging from trees, a truly ludicrous claim.
Environmentalists care more for snail darters and spotted owls than they do for people.
Appeal to Fear You should give me all your valuables before the police get here....