2020#66 Readings
3 minutes read | 619 words by Ruben BerenguelThe last of 2020.
đź“Ż Guillotine: a floating camera for your online presentations
I had wanted an app to have a floating video head for presentations/share screen and could find nothing… So I gave it some personal time. Not super-happy with it being in Electron, but hey, got it done (and uploaded) which is the important part!
Example of Guillotine in action. 3 floating video windows over a presentation
đź“Żđź“ť R.Berenguel, E.Fontich: Normal forms and Sternberg conjugation theorems for infinite dimensional coupled map lattices
In this paper we present local Sternberg conjugation theorems near attracting fixed points for lattice systems. The interactions are spatially decaying and are not restricted to finite distance. The conjugations obtained retain the same spatial decay. In the presence of resonances the conjugations are to a polynomial normal form that also has decaying properties.
A paper we submitted on 31st October, 2017 has finally been accepted (after minor corrections, I guess it went to someone’s wrong pile).
Learnings from a d3.js addict on starting with canvas
Amelia Wattenberger suggested I had a look at pure Canvas solutions for the sitemap (since it’s sooo slow), and gave me a couple pointers, this being the most readable (the other is a Mozilla documentation page with many examples, very useful but not such a fun read as this post has been). The author makes it look very easy, but I’m afraid of touching my sitemap!
Torus Trooper (web version)
I played this game a lot many years ago. It works excelent on the web now!
The fascinating reason why clowns paint their faces on eggs
Omelette of creep.
52 things I learned in 2020
Interesting tidbits of information
Turning vaguely reassuring finite-state machines into regular expressions
Some people write weird code for fun.
Coding as a tool of thought
We use code as our production medium and our designing medium. That can lead to problems
Building My Own Chess Engine
This is something I’ve wanted to do for many years, although it eventually derived into using some form of reinforcement/Q-learning for either Backgammon (which was already a pioneer of reinforcement learning with this paper) or Hex
How Project Zen Improves Python for Apache Spark Users
I wasn’t aware of this project from Databricks, looks like a good plan. I still prefer Scala though.
How to Manage Python Dependencies in Spark
I discovered the interesting pex in here.
My Engineering Axioms
I particularly like 19 and 22.
Playing chess is an essential life lesson in concentration
Obligatory reference to Flow.
The Tyranny of the First-Party. “The greatest trick the devil ever…
I think the argument is slightly misguided for a very simple reason: nothing prevents a first party from packaging data from a user and passing it to a third party, without third party cookies. I should post a draft I’ve had sitting for a while…
Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe
It’s pretty solid advice.
