Learning Is The First Step
This article provides abstracts, expected results, target journals, target grants, and preliminary designs for five studies. The goal of this article is to apply the build in public mindset to research. These studies are still in a grant-seeking and preliminary design phase. Outline of Studies: GPT-4 Self-Assessed Research Quality Cross-Validated GPT-4 Literature Review Accuracy GPT-4 … Read more
This article analyzes the Resetting Tech Culture report from Accenture and Girls Who Code in four parts: 6 Selected Results 8 Selected Criticisms What it Doesn’t Say Related Notes Here is the Girls Who Code press release from 2020. Here is the Accenture landing page for the report, and here is the actual report! 6 … Read more
This article lists some thoughts on optimal hiring, firing, and performance review policy. I do like what Netflix does: At any time a report can bring an offer letter to their manager and the manager is free to modify compensation. In their words: “To help us attract and retain stunning colleagues, we pay employees at … Read more
This article will describe an artifact called a brag sheet, ways that a software engineer can use a brag sheet to enhance their career development, and then I will describe a purpose-built tool called starboi that I prefer to the classic brag sheet for essentially the same use cases. What is a Brag Sheet? A … Read more
The US leads the world in gender diversity among professional software engineers. Source, Stack Overflow developer surveys 2011-2021, with emphasis on the most recent year of data. While software development is not particularly diverse, it is not among the least diverse industries and adjacent job families in the broader tech ecosystem are among the most … Read more
As part of optimizing the Ladderly curriculum, I am currently conducting an empirical investigation on what the software engineer interviewing process looks like. This article lays out a survey methodology. Not to be studied: Big N uses a 3-stage interview process inclusive of live-coded algorithm interviews with asymptotic and time complexity analysis. FAANG has public … Read more
I recently created Ladderly, which is a career accelerator and coding bootcamp alternative. Individuals looking for their first job in tech, or experienced programmers looking to level up can leverage this site. The site currently has three components, although more may be added later: A community or social network, currently implemented as a Discord server. … Read more
In the past two weeks, I’ve gotten two PRs merged to major open source projects, and a third issue that I raised was solved by another person’s PR. This article documents what those contributions are, but more importantly, it also gives tips about how you can get started contributing to open source. I. What Were … Read more
This article describes a programming pattern I call a Golden Monorepo and gives four reasons for thinking it is a useful pattern for software companies. I. What it Means to be a Software Company I mean a company that produces new software applications at a significant and regular cadence, and expects to continue doing so … Read more
I have a background in statistics, with an applied emphasis in political science and econometrics. I am also a programmer, but I am just beginning to get serious about machine learning. Before and after looking more deeply, it seems to me that machine learning (ML) is simply a special subfield of statistics. When looking into … Read more