Statistics is a form of mathematical analysis that uses quantified models, representations and synopses for a given set of experimental data or real-life studies. Statistics studies methodologies to gather, review, analyze and draw conclusions from data

A recent book was published this year by Google about site reliability and security engineering, I would like to provide you a brief overview of it and incorporate my own analysis and thoughts about this subject while saving you some time from reading, at least part of it.

On-call, sometimes referred to as on-call shifts are processes used in business where employee work schedules are intentionally unpredictable. Employees who work on-call are expected to be available at any time during their shift, usually with short notice, to carry out their working duties. Depending on the nature of the profession, on-call duties may vary from what is expected during normal working hours to emergency cover only.

While there are a few types of sorting algorithms we have a few shared metrics to evaluate them all.  So when you refer me to a specific algorithm we could ask, is this sorting algorithm stable? Is it sorting in place? What is the average worst and best case running time of this sorting algorithm? Which type of data is this sorting algorithm best suited for, how much memory does this sorting algorithm require and does it need actually extra memory?

“The Little Manual of API Design” is a very nice paper written by Jasmin Blanchette has released a paper while working in trolltech, which is a Nokia company. I found it to be very clear and concise, and reassuring what we think of API design. It’s a difficult task that includes both artistic, social, programming and scientific skills. We are going to summarize this paper for you.

In graph theory, a recursive tree is a non-planar labeled rooted tree. A size-n recursive tree is labeled by distinct integers 1, 2, ..., n, where the labels are strictly increasing starting at the root labeled 1. Recursive trees are non-planar, which means that the children of a particular node are not ordered

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) hold promise for the restoration of sensory and motor function and the treatment of neurological disorders, but clinical BMIs have not yet been widely adopted, in part because modest channel counts have limited their potential. In this white paper, we describe Neuralink’s first steps toward a scalable high-bandwidth BMI system

Character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system. Depending on the abstraction level and context, corresponding code points and the resulting code space may be regarded as bit patterns, octets, natural numbers, electrical pulses

Raft is a consensus algorithm designed as an alternative to Paxos. It was meant to be more understandable than Paxos by means of separation of logic, but it is also formally proven safe and offers some additional features

How could you have a major boost on your programming abilities by having a better understanding of the product.  And if you do how much more effort and time would it require from you? what do you need to actually do?