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Embracing Mainline Development: Beyond Feature Branches

I recently embarked on an exploration of mainline development, a strategy where developers commit directly to the main branch.

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ChatGPT and the Value of a Computer Science Education

As someone who recruits graduates for their first jobs, I'm interested in how ChatGPT will impact the future of computer science education.

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Inspired by Nature: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms

Learn how computer scientists have taken inspiration from nature and built genetic algorithms that solve complex real-world problems.

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Learn the Fascinating History and Uses of the Public Suffix List

The Public Suffix List is a piece of modern browser security comprised of a simple text file stored in a public repository, operated by volunteers.

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Spectral Clustering: Where Machine Learning Meets Graph Theory

We can leverage topics in graph theory and linear algebra through a machine learning algorithm called spectral clustering.

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Traversing the Edges of a Graph

How we traverse graphs is important for many problems. But how we can transform graphs is also important; it can help us view problems in a new way.

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How to Interpolate Along a Linestring

An explanation of how to interpolate along a linestring to find a new point some distance along it, with Scala code to accomplish this.

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Redux, Modularity, and the Law of Demeter

Lessons learned from object-oriented programming help point the way to better ways of structuring Redux-based applications.

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Simple Skew-Normal PRNG in JavaScript

A quick overview of what skew-normal distributions are and a simple way to implement one in JavaScript without additional libraries.

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A Simple Introduction to Crossing Numbers of Graphs

The local crossing number of a drawing of a graph is the largest number of crossings on a single edge. The minimum local crossing in any drawing of a graph is the local crossing nu

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A Relatively Brief History of Time(keeping)

From timezones to oscillators to NTP, we can now keep track of time on a global scale, with accuracy to the millisecond or better, across otherwise independent machines.

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An Introduction to PostgreSQL Materialized Views

What materialized views are, when you should consider using them, and what we learned from bringing them into our Postgres database project.

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