Each episode we focus on one idea from computer science and try to understand how it fits into our world as professional programmers.

This episode we welcome our guest host, Sergey Astretsov, to discuss the paper “Coverage and Its Discontents” about the use of code coverage as a proxy for test effectiveness. From there we debate when and why to test, discuss the relationship between commenting and testing, and generally digress.

Links:

<ul>
 <li><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce/onwardessays14.pdf">Coverage and Its Discontents</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.squarefree.com/2007/08/02/introducing-jsfunfuzz/">jsfunfuzz</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B">Software standard for airborne systems</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html">Fast Square Root explanation</a></li>
</ul>

<description>
 &lt;p&gt;Each episode we focus on one idea from computer science and try to understand how it fits into our world as professional programmers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This episode we welcome our guest host, Sergey Astretsov, to discuss the paper “Coverage and Its Discontents” about the use of code coverage as a proxy for test effectiveness. From there we debate when and why to test, discuss the relationship between commenting and testing, and generally digress.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Links:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce/onwardessays14.pdf"&gt;Coverage and Its Discontents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.squarefree.com/2007/08/02/introducing-jsfunfuzz/"&gt;jsfunfuzz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B"&gt;Software standard for airborne systems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html"&gt;Fast Square Root explanation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

</description>

We look at how and how not to use code coverage, and discuss a variety of topics around software testing.

Software Testing and Test Effectiveness

In our second episode we interview Adam Gibson, creator of the DeepLearning4J open source project. It turns out that deep learning really is a major breakthrough for machine learning, both conceptually, and as evidenced by the benchmarks.

Links!

<ul>
 <li><a href="http://www.skymind.io/">Skymind</a> (Adam’s company)</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ViNeWhC24">Andrew Ng on Deep Learning</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc">Adam’s Slideshare</a></li>
</ul>

<description>
 &lt;p&gt;In our second episode we interview Adam Gibson, creator of the DeepLearning4J open source project. It turns out that deep learning really is a major breakthrough for machine learning, both conceptually, and as evidenced by the benchmarks.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Links!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.skymind.io/"&gt;Skymind&lt;/a&gt; (Adam’s company)&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ViNeWhC24"&gt;Andrew Ng on Deep Learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc"&gt;Adam’s Slideshare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

</description>

Adam Gibson talks to us about what deep learning is, how it works, and what implications it has for the technology we can build

Deep Learning with Adam Gibson

Each episode we’ll focus on one idea from computer science and try to understand how it fits into our world as professional programmers.

In this episode we discuss functional reactive programming as represented by the Elm language, and how it’s influencing web development through the recent popularity of ReactJS

Links:

<ul>
 <li><a href="http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~chong/abstracts/CzaplickiC13.html">Asynchronous Functional Reactive Programming for GUIs</a> (The Elm paper)</li>
 <li><a href="http://giantrobots.fm/119">Interview with ReactJS contributor Pete Hunt on Giant Robots podcast</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://archive.org/stream/GDM_September_2005#page/n35/mode/2up">Immediate Mode GUIs</a> (Article from Game Development Magazine)</li>
</ul>

<description>
 &lt;p&gt;Each episode we’ll focus on one idea from computer science and try to understand how it fits into our world as professional programmers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In this episode we discuss functional reactive programming as represented by the Elm language, and how it’s influencing web development through the recent popularity of ReactJS&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Links:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~chong/abstracts/CzaplickiC13.html"&gt;Asynchronous Functional Reactive Programming for GUIs&lt;/a&gt; (The Elm paper)&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://giantrobots.fm/119"&gt;Interview with ReactJS contributor Pete Hunt on Giant Robots podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://archive.org/stream/GDM_September_2005#page/n35/mode/2up"&gt;Immediate Mode GUIs&lt;/a&gt; (Article from Game Development Magazine)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

</description>

We look at the theory behind ReactJS that makes it a different way to program UIs

Functional Reactive Programming - Elm and ReactJS

Applying the theory of computer science to the craft of software engineering.

Each episode we focus on one idea from computer science and try to understand how it fits into our world as professional programmers.  Think of it as book club for coders.

Theory and Craft

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