The Professional Programmer

I used to work in HPC (as evidenced in my posts on AoS vs SoA and AoSoAs ), but my interest has always been nature-inspired algorithms, like genetic algorithms . But there's a nature-inspired algorithm that is getting lots of attention these days: neural networks. People think of them as black boxes, but in this post I'll try to peel back the top and explain what's going on inside.

We've all done it before. As a recovering academic, it was practically part of my job description: work until complete burnout. But if you want to have a long, productive career then you need to be sure you take care of yourself. Here are a few things I make sure to do now that I didn't necessarily do in the past.