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Maxim Khailo

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Bar Charts With Julia

I was writing a new article for Merit and I wanted to make some charts and graphs. I used to use gnu octave for my data analysis needs but recently saw a tweet from Grady Booch about trying Julia which has a matlab esque sytnax. However, it being like matlab

The Reality Making Machines

This short essay is for computer people like me. Meaning, people who make software. If you don’t make software, you are going to find this very boring. OK, now for the boring fun stuff. It is impossible to talk about what is really out there (I am talking about

My bet is on Chomsky

My bet is Chomsky is right in the Chomsky vs Norvig debate and Geoffrey Hinton just provided some amazing fuel on the fire. If you don’t know what the Chomsky vs Norvig debate is, it started with Chomsky deriding AI researchers about heavily relying on opaque probabilistic models for

Rejection Sampling with Perl 6

Perl 6 provides a way to create lazy lists using the gather/take keywords. What I wanted to do was create an infinite list of samples from a known distribution of values. A simple way to sample from a known distribution is to do Rejection Sampling and doing this in

Total Recall

I learned programming computers before I had the internet. While technically I am a Millennial, unlike most younger Millennial programmers I had a completely different experience than they did learning how to program computers. Programming became an obsession for me as a child when I accidentally pressed the wrong button

We are Not Children

I am not a woman/man child. I don’t need games and toys to be motivated to do my work. I don’t need sugar snacks and soda pop. I take my work seriously and find inherent joy in it. Companies often use hackathons to “motivate” employees. This only

The Fox in the Henhouse

Slogging I’m writing a new time series DB in C++ called Henhouse and this is a story about a bug and my heroic battle with it. Actually, it’s not really a story about a bug, but more of a way of finding bugs and preventing them. I hope

The Mother Software

Not the Earth I am writing this on earth day, but this isn’t about the earth. On way to work I was riding the bus. And as usual, I was catching up on my reading as I was glued to the phone. During a stop, as many of you

The Cloud's Shadow on Grass Computing

Fortunately for all of us, in 15 years since the dot-com bubble collapse, there has been an increased effort from Free Software and other developers to create decentralized systems. Bittorrent, Tox, ZeroTier One, TeleHash, Media Goblin, Sandstorm, GNUNet, and countless others. This includes my own Fire★ project which I have

My Software is Infinitely Better than Skype

I wrote a little peer-to-peer application platform called Fire★. You can write graphical P2P applications using Lua. Fire★ will keep track of your contacts and manage the hard parts of p2p programming like UDP hole punching and keeping connections going. There is also a built in application editor where you