Friends!!! I’ve made my first open source library in #Scala 3. It’s a lightweight, idiomatic, type-safe wrapper around java off-heap cache with automatic codec derivation. Check it out!!! https://t.co/MNS1A6fp69
Claude Shannon. Incredibly underrated person, Father of #information as it is. I think his work "A Mathematical Theory of Communication” has become a turning point of human history. Without him we might never seen our #digital world.
One of exciting things that changed my life was the lambda calculus. This abstraction is so simple and concise. But the same time you can express any type of computation with just a few symbols. λx.x
Have you thought about the parents of great people? How did they influence their children? What did they tell them? Do people make themselves or are they always part of thier parents?
A language like #Scala lets us write functional programming on an imperative machine.
The IO monad lets us write imperative programming on a functional machine.
I've read the "God & Golem, Inc." by Norbert Wiener. It was written in 1964, but the topics in this book are absolutely relevant today. Ethics, learning machines, prostheses and so on. I strongly recommend this book!!!