notes on computing

4 ways researchers are collaborating with Co-Scientist to solve big problems - Learn how researchers are collaborating with Google's Co-Scientist to tackle complex scientific problems.

XML and JSON in 2026 - The best thing about long-lived incumbent technologies like JSON and XML is that nobody really has to think about them much any more. Except for, I do occa...

My Grateful Geek Book Finally Out - *by Jean-Louis Gassée* *Yes, with help gratefully acknowledged below, my book is finally available at Amazon in print and Kindle formats. It was harder th...

DBPedia Natural Language Interface Using Huggingface Transformer - I prototyped a simple natural language question answering demo in about 90 minutes. I accept a query like “where does Bill Gates work?”, find the likely UR...

Go Composition vs Inheritance - Go does not support inheritance, but sometimes using embedded structs can look a little like inheritance. I explore that feature to see how it differs. Con...

Fraud alert – scams using my name and picture - I have recently become aware of a fraudulent investment scam which falsely states that I have launched new software known as a QProfit System promoted by J...

Domain Models - Early Abstractions and Polymorphic Domain Behaviors - Let's talk genericity or generic abstractions. In the last post we talked about an abstraction Money, which, BTW was not generic. But we expressed some of ...

Does Your Organization Promote Negative Productivity? The Answer is Probably YES! - An employee resigns from a department and isn't replaced (not through any affirmative decision to reduce headcount - no one would take the job). Productivi...

3 Terrible Strategies for Companies Seeking Growth - Too many firms are opting for clever, cruel ways to turn a profit.

Blog Migrated - My blog is migrated to a new place: http://www.gridgain.com/resources/blog Please update your bookmarks.

I haven't disappeared... - I've been in the clutches of a product release. It's been real Soul of a New Machine stuff. We've just announced the newest robot, so its a lot easier for ...

Where's my cheese - Imperative programming is pretty difficult. The main problem is that once you've put something somewhere you expect to find it where you put it. “Hej, who ...

Rough Type has a new RSS feed - As a result of attacks by hackers intent on selling bootleg viagra and other goodies, Rough Type has made a hasty switch to a new blogging platform (Word...

Monads Are Not Metaphors - This article is also available in Japanese. I am about to break a promise. Almost three years ago, I promised myself that I would never write an article ab...

Introducing Akka - Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors - Introducing Akka – Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors 4 Jan 2010 Introduction Writing correct concurrent, fault...

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