Software Engineering Daily

“It’s a great time to be an engineer.”

Information retrieval and search engineering are becoming more intertwined with machine learning and natural language processing, leading to a wealth of work to be done in the field.

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“It’s not obvious why programming is awesome – you can’t build anything at first, everything is really hard at first – what’s the point? And so we decided, lets make a game so that the engagement is there from the first moment.”

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“The playing field has never ever been more leveled – that means everything you don’t build is your choice not to build it.”

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“Changing anything changes everything.”

Technical debt, referring to the compounding cost of changes to software architecture, can be especially challenging in machine learning systems.

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"There was a need to create a space where mothers felt welcome, because our challenges - they're very different from people who are learning who don't have these types of caregiving responsibilities."

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“I really enjoyed the challenge of taking complicated things that apparently only really smart people should understand, and explaining them to everybody.”

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“The cloud as an environment – I had thought it was a purely utilitarian kind of thing. What I realized is that it’s a fascinating centralized repository of computation.”

Wolfram Research makes computing software powered by the Wolfram language, a knowledge-based programming language that draws from symbolic and functional programming paradigms.

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“It was claimed that these [object-oriented] languages were better for modularity – and I don’t believe so.”

Caml is a functional programming language that is a dialect of the ML programming language family, developed at INRIA and formerly at ENS.

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"We might be coming back to these languages that make it easier to program parallel machines."

Haskell is a purely functional programming language that employs lazy evaluation.

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“I think what functional programming does is codify what we’ve discovered are good ways to think about problems most of the time.”

Racket is a functional programming language similar to Lisp and Scheme.

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