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Nate Petersen

How to Live Like a Machine

This is a story about machine learning. Yes, this is the part where you conjure up images in your mind about SKYNET and killer robots…

Jun 26, 2019

How to Live Like a Machine

Jun 26, 2019

Nate Petersen

Immutable Objects — or How to Rule Your Objects and Become a Tyrant (mostly about immutable vs…

Objects in Python have a lot of different properties depending on the class they belong to (or rather, have inherited from). One of the…

May 30, 2019

Immutable Objects — or How to Rule Your Objects and Become a Tyrant (mostly about immutable vs…

May 30, 2019

Nate Petersen

Objects and Classes and Snakes, oh my!

This is a story about classes. No snakes. That’s a lie. There’s lots of snakes. Snakes snakes snakes. But more importantly, what’s the…

May 29, 2019

Objects and Classes and Snakes, oh my!

May 29, 2019

Nate Petersen

Libraries

Libraries are where books are kept. But also where programming stole the name and murdered it and replaced it with technology and nonsense…

May 7, 2019

Libraries

May 7, 2019

Nate Petersen

Static Libraries — Books Made of Static

Actually this has nothing to do with static. It just sounds cool. Libraries are collections of object code (unlinked binary) that provide…

Mar 4, 2019

Static Libraries — Books Made of Static

Mar 4, 2019

Nate Petersen

GCC — The Process Behind the Code

GCC. No, I’m not talking about the Gulf Cooperation Council, I’m referring to the linux program gcc. The letters actually stand for GNU…

Feb 7, 2019

GCC — The Process Behind the Code

Feb 7, 2019

Nate Petersen

To be Hard or to be Symbolic — the Eternal Question

Links. Not sausage links, but digital links. More precisely, we’re talking about files on Linux. You have probably heard of these before…

Feb 5, 2019

To be Hard or to be Symbolic — the Eternal Question

Feb 5, 2019

Nate Petersen

What happens when WILDCARD!

Unfortunately, we are not playing Uno. We’re talking about exactly what happens when you type ls *.c into bash. First we’ll break down…

Feb 5, 2019

What happens when WILDCARD!

Feb 5, 2019

Nate Petersen

Why I Want to be a Software Engineer

I’m supposed to answer the question, “why I want to be a software engineer”. It might be easier to explain why everyone should become a…

Aug 22, 2018

Aug 22, 2018

Nate Petersen

Nate Petersen

What I like? Redbull and logic. Also flying nuns. What I don't like? Watching intelligence die. Can't really seem to escape it though...

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