Daily Reading

RSS Feed

I want to read about RSS feeds so I can learn about receive updates from a website in a standardized format.

Swap Space

I want to read about swap space because it helped me solve a problem that I had on an EC2 server.

Prompt Engineering

At first, I didn't think that prompt engineering mattered much, but after thinking about it in terms of searching latent space and given that it could cost a lot of money to use LLM APIs, I want to learn more about it.

Monocular Depth Estimation

I have a read a little about monocular depth estimation. I want to look more into it.

Video File Format

I want to read more about video file formats.

Hardware Requirements for Machine Learning

I want to read more about the hardware requirements for machine learning - since I am implementing some ML models on a rented server.

Audio File Format

I want to read more about audio file formats.

Hanlon's razor

I was reading a blog article and found the proper name of a common expression that you hear. I want to read more about it.

rsync

I read the article on SCP because I was looking for a tool I used in the past - which ended up being rsync. I am going to read the wikipedia article on rsync to hopefully improve my ability to transfer files between a client and remote server.

Secure copy protocol

Wanted to learn about SCP because, today, I needed to move something from a server to my local machine and I forgot about the scp command which would have made it easier.

ffmpeg Review

I need to review ffmpeg for something that I am doing.

tar (computing)

Want to learn more about the tar command (and zip files in general in the future).

Gradient Boosting

Reviewing Gradient Boosting before going over the xgboost documentation.

ssh protocol

Want to read about ssh protocol because I have run into it a few times and want to find out how I could use it to benefit me.

xcode

I want to learn more about xcode. I don't use a Mac, but xcode is often referenced in books / documentation that I read. I think it is used to develop apps for Apple products, so I want to learn more about it.

pip

I want to read about pip because I have been using Python more recently, so I think it would be helpful to know more about it.

Python Virtual Environments

I want to read about Python virtual environments because I have been dealing with them recently.

gunicorn

Need to read about gunicorn because I use it to deploy my Flask application on the server.

AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

Looking to add some space to my server and so I am looking into Amazon EBS.

Convolution

I was going over neural style transfer and I want to remind myself of how the convolution process works.

tabindex

I have some situations on this site that I don't know what the best practices are in regards to using the tabindex HTML attribute. I am going to read some blog posts (or only one) on the topic to learn more about the best practices.

A Beginner's Guide to the True Order of SQL Operations

Reading a blog post about the true order of SQL operations. I was having trouble with SQL earlier and found this article, so I am going to read it.

Karl Marx

Reading about Karl Marx because he is an often talked about character, and I don't know much about him.

Tomography

I was reading about Lasso Linear Regression and found an application in computed tomography. I looked up tomography, and it seemed interesting.

Gaussian Function

Learning more about the Gaussian Function since it is a problem that comes up a lot in machine learning.

Optimization Theory

Optimization Theory is a topic that comes up a lot in Machine Learning, so I want to learn more about it.

Differential Privacy

Differential Privacy is something that I need to learn about in order to safely create something that I want to create.

Phylogeny

I was reading a machine learning math book and it mentioned matrix phylogeny. Looking at videos online, phylogeny is integral to biology, which I don't know much about, so I am going to try to learn more about it.

Kernel Method

Also known as the Kernel trick, this is a concept used often in Machine Learning, so I want to read more about it here.

Abductive Reasoning

This topic has come up multiple times in studying the math behind artificial intelligence / machine learning, so I want to know more about it.

Pseudorandom Number Generators

These pseudorandom numbers are used a lot in computer technology, so I want to learn more about them.

New Institutional Economics

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Stockholm School

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Chicago School

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Keynesian Economics

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Lausanne School

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Institutional Economics

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Neoclassical Economics

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Islamist Economics

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Historical School

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Anarchist Economics

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

English Historical School

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

French Liberal School

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Marxian Economics

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Georgist Economics

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Ricardian Socialism

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

American School

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Classical Political Economy

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Physiocrats

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Mercantilism

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Distributism

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Ancient Economic Thought

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Scholasticism

Part of the series where I am trying to learn more about each of the major economic schools of thought.

Hardware Random Number Generators

Hardware random number generators are used often in computer technology - like in operating systems, so I want to learn more about them.

Random Number Generation

I want to know more about random number generation. It was used often when I was studying machine learning with Python, and I want to know more about its relevance.

Mainstream Economic Theory

After reading about the Austrian School of Economics, I decided that I should probably become more knowledgeable about mainstream economic theory before delving into the different schools of economics again, so I am reading about the topic here.

Rationalism

I am coming back to Philosophy and specifically Rationalism because I haven't read it in a while and Rationalism was mentioned often when reading about Empiricism.

Austrian School of Economics

I was listening to a podcast and this topic was brought up. I realized that I don't know much about the history of economics, so I decided to try to learn something about it.

Hash Function

Hash functions are a very important topic in computer programming, so I am going to try to learn more about them.

Encryption

Encryption is another important topic that is related to computer programming, a topic that I don't know a lot about, so I am going to try to learn more about it.

Social Epistemology

I want to read about social epistemology because I want to see how it might be related to interpreting or reducing the opinions of many people to one result.

Character Encoding

Character encoding is an important topic in computer programming, so I am going to try to learn more about it.

History of Psychiatry

History of psychiatry is the study of the history of and changes in psychiatry, a medical specialty with diagnoses, prevents and treats mental disorders.

Empiricism

I was reading "A New History of Western Philosophy" by Anthony John Patrick Kenny a while back and decided to continue reading it today. I left off in Part 3 of the book, which covers the modern philosophy, science, and empiricism, so I decided to re...

Kernel (Operating System)

The kernel is mentioned often when reading about computer science / software engineering topics, so I want to learn more about it.

MapReduce

MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating big data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster. MapReduce is often times mentioned when learning about distributed systems, so I though...

Part Numbers

I have dealt with Part Numbers in a manufacturing environment, building projects for school and other, and trying to replace equipment that fails. I want to learn more about them to see if there is any standardization across industries.

Terminal Pager

The terminal pager has been mentioned often in my reading about software engineering / computer science, so I figure I will try to learn more about it.

Storage Water Heater

I had a problem today with a leaking water heater, so I am going to try to learn more about them here.

Write Ahead Logs

Write Ahead Logs were a component of database systems that was mentioned a lot in "Designing Data Intensive Applications". I want to return to this concept to remind myself about how they operate.

Supervised Learning

I want to go through the Wikipedia series on Machine Learning and Data mining. Supervised learning (SL) is a paradigm in machine learning where input objects (for example, a vector of predictor variables) and a desired output value (also known as a h...

Machine Learning

I want to go through the Wikipedia series on Machine Learning and Data mining. Machine learning (ML) is a subfield of artificial intelligence that focuses on the development of algorithms capable of learning from data and generalizing to unseen data...

Data Mining

I want to go through the Wikipedia series on Machine Learning and Data mining. Data mining is the process of extracting and discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database sy...