When I first understood git, after dedicating some hours to watching a video and reading long articles, it was like I finally had power over time. I can find out who changed what, and when. I can move branches to point right where I want. I can rewrite history! Understanding a tool well enough that …
Programmers tell the computer what to do. The computer has a processor, it has some memory, and it follows a set of instructions. The instructions say what to load into memory, what to do with the values in memory, how to change that memory, and when to store it off somewhere else. There is an …
I’m currently distracted from life, immersed in Concepts of Modern Mathematics. Did you know that you can find out whether a number is prime by multiplying all the integers before it, adding one, and then dividing by the number of interest? Me neither! it’s like this: a number p is prime if and only if: …