codeslasher

Yet another critique of Kniberg's classic metaphor that's been floating around the agile-sphere and beyond for 10+ years. I'm arguing that the original article introduces a problematic mental model, while a better (albeit less catchy) one is actually hidden inside it.

I’ve written an in depth article about nonlinear least squares fitting from a Bayesian perspective. In there, I derive the best fit parameters, their covariance, and credible bands around the best fit model from scratch. I am using only elementary linear algebra and calculus. I also try to shine a light on the influence of priors.

None of this is rocket science or novel, but I still feel there’s value to this, since it helps to understand what the method of least squares means from a Bayesian POV.

It’s what I had lying around. But an M1 sounds good as well :) there are many solutions to this problem.

Tribute to a lesser known algorithm that celebrates its 50 year anniversary.

I've only read A Fire Upon The Deep, which I found super interesting in terms of setting, but the storytelling felt a bit clunky to me at the time. I was still intrigued by the author though and I read A Deepness In The Sky and was blown away.

Storytelling, setting, everything just clicked. I know there is a third book in the trilogy but it seems a bit back to the roots in terms of setting and I haven't touched just out of the fear that I wouldn't love it as much as ADITS... Should I?

End of last year I wrote this piece that evaluates how Rust stacks up against some common bugs that are easily introduced in C++...

This is not a C++ bashing article.