True, but that sounds boring.

I understand; I was just being transparent with the fact that I’m a lazy motherfucker and that I used it to “translate” the text.

There are YT courses available to support the book. Or rather, the book exists to support the courses:

• 6.046J - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• 6.851 - Advanced Data Structures

Don’t mind the ages of these series - I watched them in full, and they’re generally still relevant. I say generally because I’m not sure if I’ll ever use a Tango Tree, but who knows!

PS: If you’re not sure if you don’t know the required Math, I created a graph of all MIT courses with YT videos here. The courses on the left are dependencies for those to the right.

That reminds me to read all his public letters (available on the website you just linked) soon. Using TTS, because that’s all too much text for my poor brain to handle.

I asked ChatGPT to convert the text to common words:

“Academic writing is often hard to understand because it uses complicated words specific to a particular field, making it easier for experts to communicate with each other but harder for outsiders to follow. This keeps certain knowledge limited to a small group of people and maintains a cycle where only the educated or ‘in’ crowd can fully engage, while others are left out.”

Head First Java is also nice to learn OOP as well! Don’t worry that you’re learning an older version of Java. It’s good to know the old style, because not all Java code is fancy schmancy new ;)

Out of a lot of series I’ve read, the Head First is really geared towards beginners. Highly recommended for beginner to intermediate programmers.

I am going to toot my own horn… Or rather: MIT’s horn.

https://thaumatorium.com/articles/mit-courses/mit.drawio.svg

This is a graph of most of MIT’s CompSci courses, where the lines are dependencies. If you want to learn something on the right, learn the connected things on the left.

While there are video courses, the top link in each block links to MIT pages where they tend to recommend books for each course. The algorithm courses recommend “Introductions into Algorithms, Fourth Edition”, for example.

I hope it helps (even if I don’t think this is the be-all end-all to your question).

currency = capitalism

u wot mate? If that was the case then we would always have had Capitalism, which we’ve obviously did not. You need a system that supports inserting capital into random companies to get to Capitalism, not (just) currency.

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And lack of trailing comma’s

Someone’s working on a standard! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rivest-sexp/

and no possibility of (a lack of) trailing comma’s. Unless you use JSON inside Yaml, you heathens!

Depends on the data structure. If you want to save a table of sorts, you’re getting a bunch of unreadable [[[]]] nonsense.

For flat structures it’s great though.

That lack of trailing comma has been the bane of my existence.

People are working on making S-Expressions a standard: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rivest-sexp/

Note: This is just a draft, but improvements have been happening since 2023.

I probably won’t like the parentheses, but I think I’ll take it over yaml/json/whateverelse.

YAML is fine if you use a subset (don’t use the advanced features - not like you know those anyway) and use explicit strings (always add " to strings), otherwise things may be cast when you did not intend values to be cast.

Example:

country: NO (Norway) will be cast to country: False, because it’ll cast no (regardless from casing) to false, and yes to true.

country: "NO" should not be cast.

Alas it’s not my site (and I think it’s meant to be read on a desktop screen), so I can’t fix it.

I’ll just be accused of mansplaining

Have you actually been accused, or are you afraid of being accused? Because in reality, most people don’t give two shits about the idea of “mansplaining”.

For the newbies: RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601. Bookmark this site.

YAML is complex and has security concerns most people are not aware of.

YAML is racist to Norwegians.

If you have something like country: NO (NO = Norway), YAML will turn that into country: False. Why? Implicit casting. There are a bunch of truthy strings that’ll be cast automagically.