Well, this is a first. I forgot to enable my site blocker extension and still did not visit any of my blocked sites during work hours.
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Now listening to Shakira - Objection (Tango) from the Laundry Service album. Every song in this album is a banger!
Dido has been wondering why she got out of bed for 26 years.
I grew up in a hilly region of South Bangalore. So the flat earth theory would have never worked on me.
Now listening to this Guitar cover of Death and All His Friends by Coldplay
Now listening to Fuerte by Nelly Furtado ft. Concha Buika. Remember playing this song on repeat back in 2009.
I asked Claude a very basic question about the sum rule in differentiation, and it turned into a fun conversation about how deep learning works.
I find calculus inherently harder to learn than discrete math and less intuitive. Am I the only one?
I haven't shared any books here so far. I'd like to start off with one of my favourite technical books - Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho.
The book is written in a conversational style, is quite comprehensive and teaches you to write idiomatic Python. It also links to primary sources where you can learn about the history of Python.
Admittedly, I've only read around 50% of the book and mostly use it as a reference whenever I need to learn a specific topic. I highly recommend it if you want to level up as a Pythonista.
In the good old days, programming language creators designed the workhorse integer data type.
As soon as the computer industry started minting billionaires, all of a sudden, we started needing those esoteric big ints as well.
On a related note, it's amazing how Google's Map Reduce framework was created around the same time as Google's IPO. Google needed a new way to count all that money.