With Bash:
With Python and Bash:
With Python (Async):
Via github.com/cjamesni.
Proud to share the Cisco badge: CCNA Routing & Switching 200-125. Narrowly avoided #Certpocalypse 2020 and thankfully passed the composite exam yesterday morning. With thanks owed to David Bombal and Wendell Odom for their unimproveable training materials:
Your Acclaim: Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching) was issued by Cisco to Christopher Evelyn James.
Book Authors: Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
Published: 2016
Ideas discussed:
What should we do or leave undone in a day or a lifetime?
Alogrithms: Simply put… a finite set of steps.
The Secretary Problem
Optimal Stopping Theory: “37%.”
Explore/exploit: New vs. best so far. Gittin’s index. The multi-armed bandit problem: win-stay, lose-shift. Regret minimisation frameworks. Upper confidence bound alogrithms. Priors. A/B testing Obama.
Scheduling Theory
Sort Theory: The ‘search’ misnomer. Bubble, Insertion, Merge, Bucket, Rough, Tree. Linear vs. quadratic time. Comparison counting. Radix.
Stackoverflow - How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
Caching Theory: The memory hierarchy. Bélády’s algorithm. Cache eviction. Page faults/Cache misses. LRU. FIFO. The Forgetting Curve…
Jet lag aside, I’m happy to report ten days both sunny and enjoyable on a visit to Chicago from late April to early May of this year. A great experience which took me from the beautiful Chicago side shore of Lake Michigan, to many places throughout The Loop and Magnificent Mile in the city, and out around the suburbs along Route 59 …
Just a few of the stops along the way:
