I recently made SymReg. It lets you discover mathematical expressions that explain some data based on some other data.

The code used for this blog post is in this notebook.

Let's try it on a sine wave, in spite of the fact that it does not have a sine building …

Take Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture and map its correspondences with Gary Bernhardt's thin imperative shell around a functional core, and you get an understanding of how to cheaply maintain and scale software!

This is what Mr. Brandon Rhodes did. It's not every day that I find such clear insight.

I …

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I installed it. You can comment on my blog without loading third party sites or creating any accounts now. You can even comment anonymously. Please don't abuse this, or I will turn it off.

Updated 2020-09-03: Statement on coupling

I was recently blown away by watching some of Uncle Bob's Clean Code presentations (make sure to check out his blog). Of particular focus was his demo of Test-Driven Development, which when done right, reduces defects, development cost, and maintenance cost of software.

In …

In my review of cryptocurrencies, I mentioned that Bitcoin Cash offers "relatively less security compared to Bitcoin".

What did I mean by that?

What are the various kinds of security that a cryptocurrency offers? How to enhance them and avoid compromising them?

I will address the following questions:

I argue that VPNs are bad for the user, especially if the user is a dissenter from the status quo.

Knowing that the next Bitcoin "halvening" will shrink inflation to half yet again next month (I estimate it'll be the 23rd of May), I was curious to see what's in store for the price of Bitcoin.

Currently, the supply inflation is below 4% per year, according to this pretty chart …

A search engine has an immense influence upon the searcher. Let's explore the story of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong was a UK colony before being ceded back to China, who declared it will let Hong Kong "enjoy a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs which are …

When disaster strikes, like a fire, flood, hurricane, or an epidemic, and utilities and supply chains get disrupted, you might see much higher prices for goods that yesterday were cheap. This is called price gouging.

For instance, in 2017 after hurricane Harvey struck Texas, in some locations gas prices shot …

I shared my previous post on Reddit, and I got some very useful feedback which pointed out the irrelevance of what I was measuring (and also a scientific paper pointing out many statistical errors in a "real" GitHub study).

So, I figured I'd measure something more relevant: bugs.

Caveats

Sadly …