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This started as a sprawling file in my ~/log folder. I enjoyed sharing it with people by emailing them a Dropbox share URL, but maybe this wiki will be more fun.
- Topics start at the bottom of this page.
- At the start of a new month, some topics get moved into that month
- At the end of the month, I write a summary
Thoughts on this stuff? Open issues or email me or something.
Read the Introduction page for context, my inspiration, and notation.
- Focus in programming: Clojure, FP, distributed systems, concurrency models, CLJS, FRP, CSP
- Focus elsewhere: finance/investing, communication/interpersonal
sequenced: -+-> Clojure/FP -+--> CSP, core.async, distributed systems
\ \-> CLJS, Mori ->
\--> FRP, React-----------------\-> Om
- 2014 January - planning
- 2014 February - Meteor, React, FRP. Non-programming: Little Blue Book.
- 2014 March - Clojure, FP, core.async. Non-programming: Intelligent Investor?
- 2014 April - CLJS, Mori, Om. Non-programming: game theory?
- 2014 May - CSP, other concurrencies? Actor model?
- 2014 June - Distributed systems? XMPP?
- And then...?
We can all benefit by doing occasional “toy” programs, when artificial restrictions are set up, so that we are forced to push our abilities to the limit.
—Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming
— Apprenticeship Patterns: "Breakable Toy"
- chromuxinator - tmuxinator for chrome
- dataflow/logic programming:
- build something like fez: http://flippinawesome.org/2014/02/24/using-grunt-consider-fez/
- small game
- monopoly game http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/06/my-favourite-interview-question.html
- "maze chaser" etc
- first just player vs computer (webworker agents?)
- then multiplayer
- then allow editing agent code? in shared space?
- https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-sharejs + ace-editor; run a multi-agent simulation + chat room?
- osx: watch file, blink in menu when updated
- wiki? (distributed, browser persist or otherwise)
- https://github.com/ericclemmons/grunt-react
- nice log recorder for selenium-driven chrome (chromedriver)
- can I use meteor-sync as bb underlying transport?
- https://github.com/andyyoung/Process-Monitor-for-Chrome - expose to JS land to share/record
- idea: start meteor + react chat app?
- idea: start clojure lobste.rs friend-finder-client for their invite system?
- idea: group chat & doc annotate?
- idea: detect talking in a vox stream?
- https://github.com/latentflip/hark ( via http://simplewebrtc.com/ )
- https://github.com/shriphani/Listener/blob/master/VAD.py
- http://www.speech.kth.se/prod/publications/files/3437.pdf
- http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/shihab/CSE474/Papers/10.1.1.93.3453.pdf
- http://sipi.usc.edu/~ortega/WaveletPapers/speech_music1.pdf
- http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/VAD_and_CNG
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5367214/any-simple-vad-implementation
Chunk these up into themes, organize by month. May have to revisit some many times.
See ~/log/0000-00-00-books-reading-films
why education is so difficult and contentious - egan via bret victor
x http://www.sfu.ca/~egan/Difficult-article.html
_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QFDzRkmiUE
learning in depth - egan via victor
_ http://www.sfu.ca/~egan/Learningdepth.html
_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAOKJpg2fM
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/do-rigid-college-admissions-leave-room-for-creative-thinkers/
http://www.ultrasaurus.com/2008/12/situated-learning-through-open-source/
http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/Publications/Resources/OxCHEPS_OP1_08.pdf
http://educationnext.org/education-and-economic-growth/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/philosophy-in-a-time-of-software/
http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem01.html
continental philosophy reading list: https://gist.github.com/steveklabnik/4017292
_ what was that game theory book? where did I find the recommendation?
It was this:
http://www.amazon.com/Games-Strategy-Third-Edition-Avinash/dp/0393931129
But maybe get this instead:
http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Strategically-Competitive-Business-Politics/dp/0393310353
"Concurrency is not Parallelism" by Rob Pike at Waza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs
"Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs
"Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns"
http://blog.golang.org/advanced-go-concurrency-patterns
Joy of Clojure Chapter 11 "Mutation" - "When to use Atoms, Refs, Futures, Promises, Locks, Agents, ..."
http://joyofclojure.com/
via http://pepijndevos.nl/how-reify-works-and-how-to-write-a-custom-typ/index.html
Patterns in concurrency
http://parlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/patterns/patterns
CSP: Communicating Sequential Processes
http://swannodette.github.io/2013/07/12/communicating-sequential-processes/
using csp for UI
http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/cws.pdf
http://alleystoughton.us/eXene/1991-ml-workshop.pdf
How it is extended in core.async:
http://clojure.com/blog/2013/06/28/clojure-core-async-channels.html
http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf hoare
~/Dropbox/Library-mine/cspbook.pdf
related algebras, books:
http://theory.stanford.edu/~rvg/process.html
how does this get distributed? erlang gen-server/gen-event etc? other models?
distributed core.async for JVM and CLJ:
http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2013/07/19/quasar-pulsar-0-2-0-distributed-actors-supervisors/
Actors
https://github.com/levjj/sweet-actors/blob/master/README.md
STM?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
List of resources:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Software_transactional_memory
Steve Vinoski on RPC
http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2009/slides/SteveVinoski_RPCAndItsOffspringConvenientYetFundamentallyFlawed.pdf
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing
* A Note on Distributed Computing
""" Provides amazingly lucid and detailed explanations for all these issues and more
https://web.archive.org/web/20050512093033/http://research.sun.com/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf
"RICON West Videos: Distributed Systems in Academia"
http://basho.com/ricon-west-videos-distributed-systems-in-academia/
* So much good stuff: CRDTs, LVars, Raft
* Datomic's backed by Riak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD9UCfQohQE
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/datomic/zSpKRRPow_M/qn9rzt_nN5UJ
* recent blog post "what level distributed systems engineer" - what background material is there?
http://blog.incubaid.com/2012/03/28/the-game-of-distributed-systems-programming-which-level-are-you/
_ read & take notes
_ revisit in +2 months, read & take notes
* what models of concurrecy / distributed systems are there? why are there different ones?
* "concurrency is not the problem, shared mutable state is" - reference?
Raft "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm"
https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf
Riak Concepts
http://docs.basho.com/riak/1.2.0/references/appendices/concepts/
Riak handbook
http://riakhandbook.com/
BOOM Analytics: Exploring Data-Centric, Declarative Programming for the Cloud
http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/eurosys10-boom.pdf
Podcast: Think Distributed
http://thinkdistributed.io/
http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html
In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm Diego Ongaro, John Ousterhout 2013
https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf
A Simple Totally Ordered Broadcast Protocol Benjamin Reed, Flavio P. Junqueira 2008
http://labs.yahoo.com/files/ladis08.pdf
Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective Tushar Deepak Chandra, Robert Griesemer, Joshua Redstone 2007
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub33002.html
The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems Mike Burrows 2006
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf
Paxos Made Simple Leslie Lamport 2001
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lorenzo/corsi/cs380d/past/03F/notes/paxos-simple.pdf
Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process Michael Fischer, Nancy Lynch, Michael Patterson 1985
http://macs.citadel.edu/rudolphg/csci604/ImpossibilityofConsensus.pdf
The Byzantine Generals Problem Leslie Lamport 1982
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs614/2004sp/papers/lsp82.pdf
* find examples of distributed systems and compare "pass messages to single linearizing choke point" vs
"everybody makes state changes and respects their permissions which are later double-checked"
- KRTconf, XMPP, etc.?
Javascript Allongé
https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge
https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read - free
ilya grigorik http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch18.html#_configuring_message_order_and_reliability
progfun Coursera class
SICP
Education reading ~/log/2012-03-10-edu-safari
stream processing / distributed processing / "big data"
http://manning.com/marz/
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2012/EECS-2012-259.pdf
REST / transports
fielding thesis
http://rocket.github.io/
meteor DDP
https://github.com/codeparty/racer via derbyjs
From "Apprenticeship Patterns":
> Find and read RFC 2616, which describes HTTP1.1, and RFC 707, which
> describes the state of the art in Remote Procedure Call technology as of
> January 1976. Armed with your deeper knowledge of HTTP, try to implement a
> client and a server for RFC 707. When you feel you have a good understanding of
> the trade-offs made by the editors of RFC 707, examine a modern open source
> implementation of the same ideas, such as the Apache Thrift framework that
> powers Facebook. Then, from your informed vantage point, write a blog post
> describing the evolution of our knowledge regarding remote procedure calls and
> distributed systems over the last three decades. Now, go and read Steve
> Vinoski’s articles about RPC. Do you now have doubts about the depth of your
> understanding? Write a blog post about your doubts and your current level of
> understanding.
_ bibliography of Apprenticeship_Patterns.pdf
* psychology of computer programming
* pair programming illuminated
* becoming a technical leader
_ peopleware?
_ heath brothers - made to stick (re-read, last read ~2008), decisions ?
http://www.confreaks.com/videos/2488-railsconf2013-how-to-talk-to-developers
berkshire hathaway reports
In ~/Dropbox/Library-mine:
* 2006 Graham Intelligent Investor, Revised Edition, The
* 2010 Greenblatt Little Book That Still Beats the Market, The
* Discussion:
http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=599845
http://boards.fool.com/magic-formula-investing-117512.aspx
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANI9GIQ
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008EKOGKS
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BH0VSPI
War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XRDBJY
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Malcolm-X/dp/B000BMG58I
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Modern-Library-Nonfiction-ebook/dp/B004DEPH3E
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Neuropsychopharmacology-Leslie-Iversen-ebook/dp/B0060L8QCM/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
http://worrydream.com/Links2013/
Visualization and Cognition: Drawing Things Together (1986)
Knowledge in Pieces (1988)
Analogy as the Core of Cognition (2001)
Simulation and its Discontents (2009)
* Why education is so difficult and contentious (2001)
* Other Egan pieces
Naya's Quest (2013)
Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility (2000)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1977)
An Interview with David Hestenes (2012)
* Notes for a Modeling Theory of Science, Cognition and Instruction (2006)
Modeling Games in the Newtonian World (1991)
An Interview with Carver Mead (2001)
Collective Electrodynamics (2002)
* The Engelbart Hypothesis: dialogs with Douglas Engelbart (2009)
Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future (2003)
Alan Kay
Putting Turing To Work (2013)
Normal Considered Harmful (2009)
SCIx keynote presentation (2012)
The Center of “Why?” (2004)