Polymath Engineer Weekly #6
Are you curious today?
Hello again. Clean the old open tabs and enjoy some fresh ones.
Links of the Week
Hiding a photo inside another photo
This is a well-illustrated post on how to use steganography to hide information inside an image.
Social Tokens: The Economy of You
“Perhaps the most exciting part of the social token movement is what can be done with these economies. Since these projects live on-chain, they can interoperate with other parts of the crypto ecosystem. These “composable economies” will usher in new financial instruments and organizations if successful.“
Hashing in Action: Understanding bcrypt
You probably know that you should not be storing passwords in plaintext. But are you using a secure hash function?
Attention and Augmented Recurrent Neural Networks
Chris Olah is very good at creating illustrative examples on how complex machine learning algorithms work. It makes you want to know more about every topic he writes about.
▶ Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper
This guy designed a “C compiler that targets the printable subset of x86”. Doing something just for the sake of doing it can be a great opportunity to solve interesting problems.
Everything You Know About Latency Is Wrong
It's hard to understand latency in production. Be pessimistic on user experience, things might be worse than you think from the perspective of your users.
▶ Advanced Postgres Schema Design
Modeling data is hard. Postgres makes it possible to represent your domain schema in a rich way.
Electric Vehicles Continue The Same Wasteful Mistakes That Limit Longevity
How will the electric vehicles evolve in the following years?
Book of the Week
“Through short stories, illustrations, and analysis, the book discusses how systems can acquire meaningful context despite being made of "meaningless" elements. It also discusses self-reference and formal rules, isomorphism, what it means to communicate, how knowledge can be represented and stored, the methods and limitations of symbolic representation, and even the fundamental notion of "meaning" itself.”
Hope you enjoyed the links. Have a nice week ;)