Things I've Liked And Learned: 2020

Inspired by Fogus’ “The best things and stuff…”

Programming/Tech/Math

How To Speak by Patrick Winston. Great talk about how to speak effectively with tons of examples in the positive and negative.
Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they’re all on this hard drive). Look at brute-forcing music and the implications on copyright on own permutations. What about text?

The Fabian Strategy. Thanks 30 Rock.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

How To Understand Things.
Uncomputable Numbers. Great blog post
The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories. Interesting look how an interesting developer does. “I write an average of five new programs every week. Poets have to write poems. I have to write computer programs.”
Code is Engineering, Types are Science. Easy to understand view of reasoning related in programming.
Gresham’s Law: Why Bad Drives Out Good As Time Passes. A small bit on Gresham’s Law. Once I knew I couldn’t help but see it.
Reality has a surprising amount of detail by John Salvatier.