Three different ways to learn: with correct answers, without them, or by trial and error. Three ways to learn In 1959, IBM engineer Arthur Samuel published a paper with a title that sounds obvious today and was a complete novelty back then: “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers.” That’s where the […]
READ MOREYou’ve got types and variables from the previous article. Today: Go control structures. The news: Go has fewer pieces than any language you’ve used. The surprise: you won’t miss a single one. if: no parentheses, one trick Go’s if drops the parentheses and demands braces always, whether it’s one line or twenty (A Tour of […]
READ MOREFriend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a neighbor’s daughter, all because she didn’t check the contract’s fine print in time, although it would have been of little use to her. I ran into her on the bus one day, on my way home. She had a face like thunder, so […]
READ MOREFriend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a friend, all because of a hiring mistake nobody at the company wanted to own up to. At the time it was rough, today he tells it as a story so ridiculous that people barely believe he actually lived through it. They say first […]
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