Computer Science

Everything is ever-increasingly more digital. Learning the incantations often brings with it a certain freedom while a non-magician is subject to the fuller extent of the environment and its spells.

Its applied side caters to skills-and-resourcefulness. The theoretical, even if not always or immediately applicable, is nonetheless fascinating.

Next steps for computer science ¶

• software design patterns

Some future steps for computer science ¶

• bonnie nardi - a small matter of programming
• raymond smullyan - to mock a mockingbird and other logic puzzles
• richard gabriel - patterns of software
• lambda-calculus
• look into something like awk for text processing/manipulation
  • vmchale/jacinda: Functional, expression-oriented data processing language
• xargs

Notes and thoughts around computer science ¶

Compilers ¶

• Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
• jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler: Possibly the smallest compiler ever - Reading through the guided code will help you learn about how most compilers work from end to end.
• CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Course
  • CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course | Hacker News
• Introduction - Let’s build a compiler
• Compiler Design in C | Allen Holub

Category theory ¶

A source of useful programming ideas.

• Bartosz Milewski: Category Theory Lessons
• Bartosz Milewski: Category Theory Lectures
• category theory notes
• category theory illustrated
• bartosz milewski - category theory for programmers
• Haskell/Category theory

Electrical engineering ¶

• Textbook for Electrical Engineering & Electronics

Project ideas for computer science ¶

In case there’s nothing else to do.

• image to halftone converter
• a framed e-ink screen to display art
• guitar pedals
• a cyberdeck
  • Cyberdecks
  • THE CYBERDECK CAFE
  • Cyberdeck | Hackaday
• a process that screenshots both monitors at a constant interval and stitches them together side-by-side
  • this way I can get some idea of where my time is going—overall-work-process
• something to pick the next movie to watch
  • Although I like the current FIFO approach for the watchlist
• a guitar tuner
  • some board with a little display and buttons to change tunings
• hygrometer
• some emulator, e.g. gameboy
• image quilts
  • get some number of images from someplace
  • take a random patch of a specified width and height from them
  • stitch the images into grid
• oblique strategies for play
• converting a picture to a set of limited values, e.g. pure black and pure white
  • convert to grayscale
  • then check if the pixel is closer to white or black and then change to closest
    • allow setting number of stops: e.g. 3 stops at 0, 127, and 255 or more at equal intervals
• a physical pomodoro timer with set intervals
  • a cube that starts the specific timer when set down on that side: 5, 10, 30, 60 minutes.
• corpus of my command line tools
• a microcontroller based alarm clock
  • something like a tiny board with a small digital screen and a few buttons to adjust the wake up time
    • or nothing, just a board with a small speaker and the programming will be done with a computer attached
  • how would it be powered though
    • battery, always plugged into an usb?, wall outlet

Elsewhere: Haskell, lambda-calculus, rust, skills-and-resourcefulness, woodworking