We spend so much time drilling algorithmic complexity. Big-O and all that. But performance is so often about contention and memory, especially when working in parallel.
Source: Big-O matters, but it's often memory that's killing your performance, an article by Rob Napier.
What is the probability of a hash collision? This question is just a general form of the birthday problem from mathematics. The answer is not always intuitive, so it’s difficult to guess correctly. Let’s derive the math and try to get a better feel for those probabilities.
Source: Hash Collision Probabilities, an article by Jeff Preshing.
It’s Pi Day, everyone — my favorite crowd-sourced holiday. And not just because of my deep affection for fruit/sugar-filled pastries. Nope, since it was first released ten years ago, I’ve loved the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. So, when I was asked if I had any ideas for a Pi-Day blog, I knew exactly what I wanted to write. So, I bring you… 5 Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab!
Source: 5 Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab, an article by Hank Preston.
An infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched The Good Nurse. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.