Issue 2020-W32
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This week has been about nix, data validation, CRDTs, the pre-mortem technique, NLP beyond English and responsive compilers.
Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English
An article highlighting the shortcomings in the current approach to natural language processing and the risks that they carry.
Responsive compilersvideo
A talk introducing Salsa and how Rust is trying to build an incremental compiler that works well with IDEs.
An introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
A series introducing the foundations of Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) and how they reconcile data across a distributed system.
An introduction to nix-shell
An article explaining the basics of nix-shell as a reproducible development
environment.
If the article leaves you with appetite for more, nix.env should be your next stop.
Pre-mortem: how to anticipate failure with prospective hindsight
An article explaining the pre-mortem technique and how it helps manage the optimism bias our team might have at the beginning of a project.
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