My friend Andrew is an advocate of the “spaced repetition” technique for memorization of a great many facts [1]. The ideas behind this are two-fold: When one first “learns” a new fact, it needs to be reviewed frequently in order to not forget it. However…

Technical Writing Courses for Engineers

An infinite number of machine monkeys paint an infinite number of blog thumbnails

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"

Throughout evolution, individual cells have been making successful decisions on their own, even while forming parts of vast networks, such as neurons and glia in the human brain. Now scientists from the EPFL Blue Brain Project and King Abdullah University…

A deep dive into what drives gamers to keep coming back

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Gladwell, the author of “The Tipping Point,” said it was “not in your best interest” to “just sit in your pajamas in your bedroom.”

Users are receiving error messages that their fully functional printers are suddenly in need of repairs.

Like several others I am writing an alternative to the C language (if you read this blog before th…

Each time you switch between apps and tasks, you leave a little bit of your attention behind. Here's how to stop context switching for good...

I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in
rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems
[https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/]
, designing…