Future of Coding Weekly 2020/06 Week 5

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🎥 Ruby Conf 12 - Xiki: the Rubyfied Next-Generation Shell by Craig Muth via Garth Goldwater 🧵Conversation

CANNOT believe I hadn’t heard of Xiki. hard to describe. kind of like a text-base glamorous toolkit or REBL. kind of like a structural interface over the command line. tons of ideas (more info in thread)

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📝 Dark and the long term via Srini Kadamati 🧵Conversation

TL;DR: We’re taking a longer term approach to building Dark. As part of this, we’ve made the difficult decision to shrink Dark’s team, and to change how we build both the product and the company.

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📝 THERE IS NO INTERFACE (WITHOUT A USER). A CYBERNETIC PERSPECTIVE ON INTERACTION via S.M Mukarram Nainar 🧵Conversation

“On the surface, the fundamental idea of a direct manipulation interface to a task flies in the face of two thousand years of development of abstract formalisms as a means of understanding and controlling the world. Until very recently, the use of computers has been an activity squarely in that tradition. So the exterior of direct manipulation, providing as it does for the direct control of a specific task world, seems somehow atavistic, a return to concrete thinking.”

Some interesting stuff here, though I'm not sure I buy into the gestalt psychology stuff. This journal seems to have other neat stuff (that I haven't read) too. I saw something on xanadu in the table of contents.

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🎥 Scott Kim’s Viewpoint Demo via Jared Windover 🧵Conversation

At this section, he’s able to do some modification of the ui of a drawing tool using that tool. Most of the video seemed pretty meh to me (oh a pixel-based drawing tool), but I found this particular segment extremely compelling.

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📄 Do Neural Ranking Models Intensify Gender Bias? via Maeliza 🧵Conversation

Future of coding should also means more equity. I came accross a paper earlier mentionning that latest NLP algo intensify gender bias in Information Retrival system. Basically, the more performant is the algo the more it is able to infuse the bias of the training dataset. When it comes to NLP to fight gender bias, there are some technics like gender swapping,biais fine tuning or learning gender-neutral embedding exist to mitigate the bias (futher reading - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08976)

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💻 Amazon's no code product just launched via Mariano Guerra 🧵Conversation

HN Discussion

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💬 Stefan Lesser 🧵Conversation

Anybody else here following Apple’s WWDC and having FoC-related thoughts about it?

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❓ Aleks Litynski 🧵Conversation

'm trying to write a block based editor (in the style of unreal blueprints and its ilk), but I don't want to let users move nodes freely. I have an algorithm I'm fairly happy with to position the nodes, and now I need to draw edges between them. I'm fairly certain this is NP hard, but that circuit board designers deal with this a lot and have some pretty solid algorithms to do it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_(electronic_design_automation). Is anyone aware of general purpose libraries that are able to do this?

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📢 Python’s adding structural pattern matching via korede 🧵Conversation

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📝 Enso Dev Blog — 19th June 2020 via Mariano Guerra 🧵Conversation

Luna is now called Enso and they are starting from scratch

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❓ Spencer Baugh 🧵Conversation

Any suggestions on a good front-end library/framework for making drag and drop interactive OOP UIs? for example, a workspace of objects, and clicking a method inside an object then clicking on other objects to pass them as arguments. lots of these exist for specific languages, I'm sure, but if I wanted to make one for my own language, what would I use?

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🎥 Future of Coding, Week 10 Update Video by Chris Maughan 🧵Conversation

This week, an update on scripting the synthesizers I started a week or so ago.

🎥 Introduction for Future of Coding by Paul Sonnentag 🧵Conversation

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