• madhadron, a programmer's miscellany

  • By: Fred Ross
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madhadron, a programmer's miscellany

By: Fred Ross
  • Summary

  • Weekly topics in software engineering, its practice and history.
    2023 Frederick Ross
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Episodes
  • Classifying stream processors
    Oct 14 2023
    One of the handiest intellectual tools I have built for myself in designing distributed systems is a two out of three conjecture on stream processors in analogy with the CAP theorem for distributed systems.
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    7 mins
  • How computing is different for scientists
    Oct 3 2023
    How scientists approach programs and how programmers approach programs are very different based on their needs, and that is reflected in the tools each need.
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    8 mins
  • Steady state and perturbations
    Sep 28 2023
    Programmers, very correctly, don't generally think about their programs as dynamical systems. But there are a few mental models from physics that we can apply to software that are useful for designing programs. This episode goes over the idea of a steady state with perturbations to it and how to use it as a design tool.
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    9 mins

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