Weekly Digest #37
Articles
- Except for some basic UNIX tools, like grep or make, it’s almost impossible to find anyting that’s truly finished, not simply abandoned.
- The trick to have things finished is to limit the scope/functionality of the program.
When you visit a website, you generally make a judgement about its trustworthiness and reliability within a minute. Footer signaling is a big part of that.
The machine learning behind delivering relevant ads
User Embeddings + MLP Classifiers
Tutorials
A tutorial series on how packets are travelled through the web (need more info)
Tools
a design document providing high-level, concise documentation for API development. The goal is for these documents to serve as the source of truth for API-related documentation at Google and the way API teams discuss and come to a consensus on API guidance.
Off-topic
Inside Coober Pedy, the Australian mining town where residents live, shop, and worship underground
Residents live in makeshift homes from old opal mines to escape the oppressive heat
The worst volume control UI in the world
A collection of user-unfriendly volume UI design
