This is the first of a series of short articles.

Code for Tomorrow

How do you know if your code is good? This is subjective, to be sure, but is clarified by answering a given question which sets the standard by which the code is judged. The most question being …

Well it's been a while but I'm back at it.

What have I been doing?

Enough to keep me busy so without further delay here are the...

Top Ten Things I've Been Up To

In no particular order, here's a new Top Ten list.

1. Fish Shell. It's delightful.

2. PySpark

3. Published …

Updated: 2022-12-12

Added a requirements.txt to capture dependencies and ported to MacOS.

Updated: 2024-09-19 entry-point is the Makefile

Introduction

After 9 months I'm returning to this website. My first question was "How does this thing work?" Of course, I didn't document it and I don't remember. Lesson learned.

The …

Abstract

We're all lazy, to so some extent, and prefer to think about things that are easy to understand. In order to keep your focus on what's important, recognize that people have this tendency to get distracted by what's easy. I don't have an advice beyond that -- you'll have to …

Introduction

Dr. Richard W. Hamming was one of those famous guys at Bell Labs during its heyday. Throughout his later career he gave a talk titled You and Your Research which is available in various forms on the internet. I highly recommend setting aside half an hour and reading it …