Reading: Week 52, Dec 25 - Dec 31

Dec 30, 2017

[4] [Quora] I have a toddler. How should she prepare herself for the job market 15 years from now in the world of AI? Should I teach her Python as soon as she is willing to learn? - Interesting question! Early education is crucially important. Letting children get exposed to such materials is a very good mean of preparation for their future. This reminds me of a documentary I watched on Netflix last week: “The Mars generation”… A generation of teenage scientists, explorers, and those who carries human’s quests for conquering the universe. - Don’t think that a 15-year-old kid is not ready to learn programming.

”… Once upon a time, we wondered if everyone needed to be able to read/write…”

Dec 28, 2017

[3] Blockchain: what is in a block? #blockchain - A block (in Blockchain technology) is a data structure that represents a collection of transactions. This post gives information about how to make a block unique (or, how to generate the identifier for a given block). The identifer should have a piece of information of each included transaction. There are various ways to implement it. In this article, the author introduced a solution by hashing in pairs then bottoming up… Instead of hasing in pairs, we could use folding hash like: h(h(h(A)|B)|C).... Another simple solution is simply h(A|B|C|...) but it is less sensitive to changes as compared to the Merkle tree approach.

[2] Tổng quan về testing – phần 1: Tại sao lập trình viên cần biết về testing? #testing

Dec 25, 2017

Merry Christmas 🎄!

[1] Engineering the Architecture Behind Uber’s New Rider App #ios #architecture #uber - An old post (2016)… This is actually a variation of VIPER. The core benefit which impresses me is that “routing is guided by business logic rather than view logic”. Totally worth that level of complexity.