13 November 2022

28 links · Sunday

Your DietBet Destroyed the World

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Today I Learned: The Rule of 72

I came over a .pdf on linkedin, which I’m unfortunately unable to find again, containing some lessons of investing from Benjamin Graham’s mentor1. One of them was the rule of 72. The rule of 72 is used to find out how long it takes to double your investment gi…

GitHub Business Card

Generate your custom image from your GitHub username. A fun experiment of image generation.

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.NET at Stack Overflow | .NET Conf 2022

Join Roberta, Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow, as she gives a deep dive on how they leverage the latest version of .NET to scale to millions of use...

Mammals

Travel back 100,000 years and the planet was rich with a wide array of wild mammals. Mammoths roamed across North America; lions across Europe; 200-kilogram wombats in Australasia; and the ground sloth lounged around South America.

Array short-circuiting

A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.

#lang lua

I’m currently working on a macOS app that’s built with Racket and allows the user to write small scripts to process and filter some data. While Racket is definitely my preferred language and I could easily use it for these scripts, my target audience for this …

My journey to using Directus

Directus is an open-source data platform that allows you to build a backend in hours instead of weeks. I wanted to expand on how I started using it and my experience so far. Spoiler: it's been amazing ✨

Why Substack will win over everybody

Blogs have been the avenues that amateurs flock to when they crave lighter opinions. There are no serious incentives for bloggers to write a 3000-word post that is deeply researched. Even though the masses don’t yearn for these deep posts, humanity as a whole …

Tracing HTTP Requests with tcpflow · Anantha Kumaran

PagerDuty went off very early in the morning, and our hero cursed his bad luck and received the phone call. He made PagerDuty repeat the message twice, but couldn’t understand the message. He pressed the number to acknowledge the incident. He opened the MacBoo…

Welcome · Kyle Hovey

Welcome to my Blog! I am a Computational Mathematics graduate from Utah State University. I grew up in the foothills of California, nestled between Tahoe and Yosemite. I am happiest when trudging up a fresh trail or starting up a new hobby.