Currying is an advanced technique of working with functions. It’s used not only in JavaScript, but in other languages as well.
Currying is a transformation of functions that translates a function from callable as
f(a, b, c)into callable asf(a)(b)(c).Currying doesn’t call a function. It just transforms it.
Source: Currying, an article by Ilya Kantor.
Python 3.10, which is due out in early October 2021, will include a large new language feature called structural pattern matching. This article is a critical but (hopefully) informative presentation of the feature, with examples based on real-world code.
Source: Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10, an article by Ben Hoyt.
Arithmetic coding is a common algorithm used in both lossless and lossy data compression algorithms.
It is an entropy encoding technique, in which the frequently seen symbols are encoded with fewer bits than rarely seen symbols. It has some advantages over well-known techniques such as Huffman coding. This article will describe the CACM87 implementation of arithmetic coding in detail, giving you a good understanding of all the details needed to implement it.
Source: Data Compression With Arithmetic Coding, an article by Mark Nelson.
In the evening I finished The Broken Eye, Lightbringer Book 3 by Brent Weeks. While not as good as the previous book in the Lightbringer series I liked The Broken Eye a lot. Recommended.
Behind the well-known U.S. security organizations—the FBI and CIA among them—lies a heavily guarded, anonymous government agency dedicated to intelligence surveillance and to a highly specialized brand of citizen protection.
Shock waves of alarm ripple through the clandestine agency when Washington, D.C., police detective Ryan Kessler inexplicably becomes the target of Henry Loving, a seasoned, ruthless “lifter” hired to obtain information using whatever means necessary. While Loving is deft at torture, his expertise lies in getting an “edge” on his victim—leverage—usually by kidnapping or threatening family until the “primary” caves under pressure
In the evening I started in Edge by Jeffery Deaver.