The main concept discussed in A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram is the complexity that results from very simple Cellular Automata. I looked at that in an earlier post Cellular Automata with F#. Chapter four of A New Kind of Science looks at systems based on numbers:
The underlying rules for …
Accelerate: The Science of DevOps - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (2018) had a huge impact in the technology industry. The book describes models of DevOps capabilities and culture, and how organisations can drive improvement in software delivery and reliability. What …
Buried Alive, from the book Livia (1978) in The Avignon Quintet.
A poem filling with water,
A woman swimming across it
Believing it a lake,
The words avail so little,
The water has carried them away
Frail as a drypoint the one kiss,
Renovation of a swimmer’s loving.
Attach a penny calendar to …
Decentralised Finance (DeFi) has crept into a couple of my go-to podcasts; folks I respect are talking about it so I wanted to learn it for myself. In this post I describe the approach I took to learning the Terra Blockchain. We set aside GUIs and Web Applications and instead interact with it …
