Episode 88: Image Processing

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Intro

Owning vs Streaming Video Games

News/Links

• Multithreading Tutorial Game
• https://deadlockempire.github.io/
• Godfathers of AI win Turing award
• https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18280665/ai-godfathers-turing-award-2018-yoshua-bengio-geoffrey-hinton-yann-lecun
• Odroid Go
• https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid_go/odroid_go
• GNUplot with sixel – Mix images, ANSI colors and plots
• https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• https://amzn.to/2uAEEPA
• Patrick: 
  • Promise of Blood
  • https://amzn.to/2FOmSxA

Tool of the Show

• Jason: 
  • PuLP and PyBNB
  • https://pythonhosted.org/PuLP/
  • https://pybnb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Patrick:
• Halide
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/halide/id885697368?mt=8

Image Processing (52:20)

• How Images are Formed and Stored
• Sensor capturing light
• Debayering
• RGB Color Depth
• Image Compression
• Video Compression
• High Level Image Processing
• Filtering
• Spatial Domain
• Frequency Domain
• Photo Editing
• Computer Vision
• Classification / Recognition
• Tracking
• Photogrammetry
• Tools
• OpenCV
• Python Image Library
• Scipy ndimage

Episode 87: Typescript

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Intro

Typescript

News/Links

• Virgin Galactic Goes to Space again with a passenger
• https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/22/richard-bransons-virgin-galactic-sends-first-test-passenger-on-spaceflight.html
• Hot Reload All the Things!
• https://hackernoon.com/hot-reload-all-the-things-ec0fed8ab0
• How FlightRadar works
• https://habr.com/en/post/440596/
• The writing of this AI is so human that it’s creators are scared to release it
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ai-writer-disinformation-1.5030305
• https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aqovhz/discussion_should_i_release_my_mnist_model_or/

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• How the Economic Machine Works and How It Is Reflected Now
• http://www.petracm.com/pdf/120714/A%20Template%20for%20Understanding,%20How%20the%20Economic%20Machine%20Works%20and%20How%20it%20is%20Reflected%20Now%20by%20Ray%20Dalio%20of%20Bridgewater.pdf
• Patrick: 
  • Salvation by Peter F Hamilton
  • https://amzn.to/2EyoY5i

Tool of the Show

• Jason: 
  • Sierra Death Generator deathgenerator.com
• Patrick:
• Overcooked (Switch, Xbox One, PS4)

Typescript (51:30)

• Recap: strong/weak typing
• Typing Transpilers
• MyPy (python)
• Typescript (javascript)
• Advantages
• Safely upgrading dependencies
• Catch errors before runtime
• Describe function parameters
• Disadvantages
• Compatibility with untyped libraries
• Transpile time
• Deployment complexity
• Transpiling to Javascript
• tsc
• Babel
• Webpack-ts
• IDE
• VSCode
• Sublime

Episode 86: Wolfram Language and Mathematica

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Wolfram Language and Mathematica

• What is Wolfram Language?
• What is the difference among the wolfram language, mathematica, and wolfram alpha?
• Pros and Cons of proprietary language
• Wolfram Language dev meetings livestreamed?  What is that like?
• New products coming from Wolfram Research?
• How to teach kids to code?
• Jobs?

Stephen's homepage: https://stephenwolfram.com/
Wolfram Language: https://www.wolfram.com/language/
Livestream of Wolfram's dev team meetings: https://www.twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram

Episode 85: Holiday Party

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News/Links

• Amazon HQ2
• https://ny.curbed.com/2018/12/18/18146208/long-island-city-market-report-amazon-hq2
• Serverless Programming
• https://www.infoq.com/articles/serverless-sea-change
• SpaceX 20th Launch of the year
• https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-dragon-cargo-spacecraft-on-20th-mission-of-2018/
• Flutter 1.0
• https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/12/flutter-10-googles-portable-ui-toolkit.html
• Things nobody told me about being a S/W engineer
• https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/
• Flipping Tables ascii emoji
• https://looks.wtf/flipping-tables

Episode 84: Customer Bug Handling

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Intro

Funny Computer Science Pop Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRcdmbC0HHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Hn1rPQouU

News/Links

• SQL in Google Sheets
• https://www.benlcollins.com/spreadsheets/google-sheets-query-sql/
• Deserialization Issues
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/deserialization-issues-also-affect-ruby-not-just-java-php-and-net/
• StackSort a la XKCD
• http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
• GraphQL: A Retrospective
• https://verve.co/engineering/graphql-a-retrospective/

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Pass
• Patrick: 
  • Food Lab by Kenji Lopez-Alt
  • https://amzn.to/2PkWkGH

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Software RAID Controller
• Patrick: Pass

Customer Bug Handling (41:04)

• Desktop
• Distribute your binary
• Turn on debug symbols
• Add rolling logs
• Balancing size vs not missing the event
• Log Levels (Performance implications)
• Add crash handlers
• Catch Signals
• Process logs
• Grep / jq
• Interpreting Stack Traces
• Addr2line / atos
• Turn off address scrambling (security implications)
• Sending data to your database
• REST/GraphQL endpoint
• Windows/Fedora/Debian crash aggregator
• Web Client
• Send crash logs over AJAX
• Mobile
• Android: https://github.com/ACRA/acra
• iOS: https://github.com/kstenerud/KSCrash

Episode 83: Teaching Kids to Code

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Intro

Building your own keyboard from scratch.

News/Links

• Nebraska Problem
• https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0011
• PyTorch 1.0
• https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/05/02/announcing-pytorch-1.0-for-research-production/
• Cosmic Ladder
• https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/the-cosmic-distance-ladder-ver-4-1/
• How to develop a boilerplate REST API
• https://hackernoon.com/how-to-develop-a-boilerplate-for-api-with-node-js-express-and-mongodb-4c771ae1c2df

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Enlightenment Now https://amzn.to/2B3rvCt
• Patrick: 
  • The Bands of Mourning https://amzn.to/2TabkKH

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Quip https://quip.com/
• Patrick: Stardew Valley (iOS & Android)

Teaching Kids to Code (47:04)

Episode 82: Reactive programming and the Actor model with Jonas Bonér

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Reactive programming and the Actor model with Jonas Bonér

• Tell us about your background
• What is reactive programming?
• What is the actor model?  How does it fit with reactive programming?
• Why would someone use this way of programming?
• When is it applicable and when it is not a good fit?
• How does the actor model compare to other distributed programming paradigms (MPI, Map-Reduce)
• How can the system recover from node failure?
• What is Akka?
• What is it like to work at Lightbend?  Are you hiring?

More info:

Follow Jonas Bonér on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jboner

Check out Akka here: https://akka.io/