A quine is a program which outputs its own source code. A quine relay is a program whose output is source code for another program, whose output is the source code for another program, …, whose output is the source code for the original program. The length of the quine relay is the number of programs in the cycle. Here is a very impressive 128-language quine relay: github.com/mame/quine-relay The command to install its dependencies is amusing:...
Goals for spring 2023 (Jan-June): Build a highly available, scalable, fault tolerant, and transactional key-value store, as part of the CSE452 Distributed Systems course at University of Washington. Line up a new SWE job. In August, I quit my job at Facebook to temporarily pursue a Masters degree at UW full-time. I’m ready to drop back down to a part-time degree load starting spring/summer 2023 and work full-time again. Read “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” cover to cover....
Here is some valuable commentary on - among other things - education, including computer science education, from a 2011 talk given by Bill Gates at UW. Idea #1: Value of formal education The value of formal education is not the unique availability of information provided to the student. Instead, it provides a certain kind of learning environment that is a more effective format for most people to ingest the knowledge - incentive structures, classmates, enrichment, and ideally better lecture delivery than what can be found on YouTube, books, or elsewhere such as from MIT OCW ....
This is an experiment to publish near-realtime thoughts and ideas with a lower “polish” bar than blog posts. I see this as analogous to Twitter or short-form/ephemeral social media content, but on my personal website. The intended workflow is: Have a thought or idea, want to publish it Open terminal, type fd <short title> Edit as a Jekyll/markdown blog post Push it Here’s the bash function I wrote for this, sourced in my ....