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    Code and Craic

    A coding and craic podcast - broadcast on our twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb) every Friday. We have a look at some live code and discuss 3 topics each week.
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    Episodes (33)

    Polyploid Mutants

    Polyploid Mutants

    This is our show 'Code & Craic' - we broadcast on Twitch every Friday at 3pm CET. That's 9am in NYC and 7.30pm in Mumbai. We have a look at some code and usually discuss some topics in 15 minute (approximately) segments.

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Also check out Matthijs' coding sessions on twitch - they are a delight, you won't regret.

    The evolutionary significance of polyploidy: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.26/

     

     

    Code and Craic
    enJune 10, 2022

    Succinct Data Structures

    Succinct Data Structures

    This is our show 'Code & Craic' - we broadcast on Twitch every Friday at 3pm CET. That's 9am in NYC and 7.30pm in Mumbai. We have a look at some code and usually discuss some topics in 15 minute (approximately) segments.

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Also check out Matthijs' coding sessions on twitch - they are a delight, you won't regret.

    Our white paper on succinct data structures: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb/blob/dev/docs/whitepaper/terminusdb.pdf

    Norvig's AI Book: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

    K trees: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03784-9_3

    noms (with interesting data structure): https://github.com/attic-labs/noms

    Kolomogorov complexity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

    NASA 3D printing: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/glenn/2022/nasa-s-new-material-built-to-withstand-extreme-conditions 

     

    10.1 License to OSS

    10.1 License to OSS

    This is our show 'Code & Craic' - we broadcast on Twitch every Friday at 3pm CET. That's 9am in NYC and 7.30pm in Mumbai. We have a look at some code and usually discuss some topics in 15 minute (approximately) segments. This week however we talking programming languages for the full show. 

    We Love GPLv3, but are Switching License to Apache 2.0: TerminusDB https://terminusdb.com/blog/we-love-gplv3-but-are-switching-license-to-apache-2-0-terminusdb/

    What is The Best Programming Language

    Social, Not Social

    Social, Not Social

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Also check out Matthijs' coding sessions on twitch - they are a delight, you won't regret.

    Shared in the chat (funny): https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

    Vaxine, the CRDT data platform: https://github.com/vaxine-io

    Bob Muglia's talk at the Knowledge Graph Conference: https://zenodo.org/record/6515008

    RelationalAI raise a lot of money (i think I said 26m in the episode, but it is much, much more): https://relational.ai/blog/relationalai-raises-usd122m-to-redefine-how-intelligent-data-apps-are-built 

     

    Excel is Code

    Where have all the good robots gone?

    Where have all the good robots gone?

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Also check out Matthijs' coding sessions on twitch - they are a delight, you won't regret.

    As I don't have any documentation on cardinality, I will just plug this new blog instead:

    8 Reasons to Version Control your database: https://terminusdb.com/blog/8-reasons-to-version-control-your-database/

    Data mesh by it's founder Zhamak Dehghani - this is an essential introduction to the ideas: https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-mesh-principles.html

    This is a good engineering intro to data mesh. I appreciated its straightforward descriptions: https://www.datamesh-architecture.com/

    Three laws of robotics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics 

    I, Robot (by Asimov - not the 'adaptation' Will Smith movie): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot

    The robot vacuum cleaner company is called 'I, Robot': https://www.irobot.ie/roomba 

     

    It's Pronounced Nu-cular

    It's Pronounced Nu-cular

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Also check out Matthijs' coding sessions on twitch - they are a delight, you won't regret.

    Critical Asset Management System (climate resilience project): https://climateresilient.world/

    And the repo: https://github.com/CriticalAssetManagement

    Data.world knowledge graph article data catalog article: https://data.world/blog/3-ways-to-confirm-your-data-catalog-is-really-powered-by-a-knowledge-graph/

    Google 'Things not Strings' to intro the knowledge graph: https://www.blog.google/products/search/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not/ 

    Knowledge graph on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_graph

    It's pronounced nu-cular: 

    Distro Wars

    Distro Wars

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Also check out Matthijs' coding sessions on twitch - they are a delight, you won't regret.

    Critical Asset Management System (climate resilience project): https://climateresilient.world/

    And the repo: https://github.com/CriticalAssetManagement

    Text rendering hates you: https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

    CentOS: https://www.centos.org/

    Privacy in Ubuntu: https://www.eff.org/nl/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks

    Happy Terminalia

    Happy Terminalia

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Also check out Matthijs' coding sessions on twitch - they are a delight, you won't regret. 

    JSON Diff and Patch on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30362025

    Documentation for our new, open JSON diff and patch API: https://terminusdb.com/docs/index/json-diff-and-patch

    'web3 ?!?!' https://lobste.rs/s/st5qeh/what_s_difference_json_diff_patch

    Melania Trump bought her own NFT: https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/melania-trump-nft-auction/

    What is in a name? (the story of TerminusDB's name): https://terminusdb.com/blog/terminusdb-whats-in-a-name/

    Terminalia - our day: https://terminusdb.com/blog/terminalia-our-day/

    Wikipedia backgroun to Terminalia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminalia_(festival)

    If you read this and want to come to our Terminalia party, email me luke@terminusdb.com - we'll even send you a beer. 

    Revenge of the Shape Rotators

    Revenge of the Shape Rotators

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Pluggable Auth in TerminusDB: https://gist.github.com/GavinMendelGleason/b4f0c32e893549a9633e1e5a8a87b889

    Check it out in action: dashboard.terminusdb.com

    Vice piece on Wordcels and Shape Rotators: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpqzb/ok-wtf-are-wordcels-and-shape-rotators

    The inventor of the concept: https://twitter.com/tszzl

    And his blog telling us what it is all about: https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words

    The game we were playing ('play zig zag'): https://vladimirslepnev.itch.io/zigzag

     

    P, or NP, that is the question

    P, or NP, that is the question

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    JSON Diffs documentation: https://terminusdb.com/docs/index/json-diff-and-patch

    Table diff product that is getting ready to launch: https://versionxl.com/

    P v NP primer (I still couldn't understand): https://jeremykun.com/2012/02/23/p-vs-np-a-primer-and-a-proof-written-in-racket/

    Apple's 10 billion blow to facebook: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.html

    29 billion in value wiped off Meta: https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-takes-29bn-hit-as-meta-share-price-plunges-12532517

     

    Crypto getting Rusty

    Crypto getting Rusty

    A few notes from the show:

    Schema as a service: https://terminusdb.com/products/schema-as-a-service/

    Greenspun's 10th rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

    Scryer Prolog: https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog

    Klima DAO: https://www.klimadao.finance/

    Bitcoin Pizza: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-pizza-day-2021-some-interesting-facts-about-this-special-cryptocurrency-day-6924731.html

    Crypto/blockchain in Rust: https://github.com/rust-in-blockchain/awesome-blockchain-rust

    And more: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/a93dv8/cryptocurrencies_written_in_rust/

    Distributed Transactions ftw

    Distributed Transactions ftw

    Twitch channel with the full show: https://www.twitch.tv/terminusdb

    Nice Git primer to get the distributed juices flowing: https://gist.github.com/williewillus/068e9a8543de3a7ef80adb2938657b6b

    Foundation Series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

    Infamous Simon Wardley tweets: https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1481201844907089923

    TerminusDB 'Git for Data' white paper: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb/blob/dev/docs/whitepaper/terminusdb.pdf

    Code and Craic
    enJanuary 21, 2022

    An introduction to TerminusX

    An introduction to TerminusX
    Luke, Gavin, Robin, & Matthijs get together to discuss TerminusX, our cloud service enabling teams to autonomously build, curate, and share versioned data products.
    Code and Craic
    enAugust 16, 2021