Things I Read June 2018

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Rolling into month five (5).  Quite the mix of literature.  I don't think I'm catching everything and my reading has trailed a little bit despite losing the internet for a week, but I'm trying to pick up some speed.  There's a lot I want to read.  I listened to some more Seveneves as well, but not 1/3, so I have to get it back from the library until someone steals it from me again.  [Addendum: nuts, I'm not keeping my list up to date; need to do a better job].

• 6/30/2018:
• 6/29/2018:
• 6/28/2018: The Young Milky Way Collided With a Dwarf Galaxy - Quantum Magaazine
• They named the old galaxy Gaia-Enceladus
• 6/27/2018:
• 6/26/2016: How GraphQL Replaces Redux
• I simply need to understand GraphQL better given we use it for our products.  Would be nice to set up my own little POC/spike project with multiple data sources.
• 6/25/2018: Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World
• “Schrödinger’s kittens,” loosely speaking, are objects pitched midway in size between the atomic scale, which quantum mechanics was originally developed to describe, and the cat that Erwin Schrödinger famously invoked to highlight the apparent absurdity of what that theory appeared to imply.
• “But it is simply not known what will happen if you start making quantum states with around 10^23 atoms,” which is the typical scale of everyday objects.
• Because of interaction with the environment, the quantum nature of the original particle leaks away and is dispersed. That’s decoherence.
• we might wonder how far those effects can be sustained as we keep adding more atoms. Three teams have now explored this question, achieving quantum states for clouds of up to tens of thousands of ultracold atoms by entangling them in a state called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).
• In a BEC, all the particles are in the same single quantum state, which means in effect that they act rather like one big quantum object. 
• 6/24/2018: Abstract (by getAbstract via work): How to Lead a Quest: A Handbook for Pioneering Executives.
• A bit dated, but it shares ideas with Sprint! an Inspired, so I had work order me a copy so I can read beyond the abstract (which rated it 9/10).  
• 6/23/2018: How to Lose an IT Job in 10 Minutes: Whiteboard coding interviews can cost you a job
• The only world where you would actually need to be able to recall an algorithm would be a post-apocalyptic one
• learned about Javascript .reduce((a, b) => a + b) [that's a very loose bit of "code"] will basically "reduce" the array, so if you have a series of numbers, that would add them into a single value.
• Here's a good example of reduce that's runnable.
• "It's like a presentation with variables" (absolutely).
• think, ask, pause, write, refine, test (or some variation)
• Conversation in the comments here.
• 6/22/2018: Dakota County Pedestrian and Bicycle Study - June 2018
• 55 pages long.  Very interesting.  I wish my projects had documentation that involved.
• 6/21/2018: How One Woman Found Her Calling As A Long Haul Trucker - Black Rifle Coffee by Maggie BenZvi
• 6/20/2018: Stoya is 'Over' Talking About Feminist Porn - Jezebel
• She has a book out: Philosophy, Pussycats, and Porn
• and a movie, Ederlezi Rising
• 6/19/2018: The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company - Bloomberg
• About OneTaste and whether it's a cult.
• Very Scientology.  Very Wild, Wild Country (Netflix)
• 6/18/2018: Get the Most out of Your Elasticsearch Logs - logmatic.io
• I didn't even know the slowlog existed.
• 6/17/2018: Search Slow Log [5.1] - Elastic Search documentation
• 6/16/2018: Tune for Search Speed - elastic.io
• 6/15/2018: The Bike Share War is Shaking Up Seattle Like Nowhere Else - Wired.com
• "The entire city is starting to look like the backyard of ill-behaved 7-year-olds who refuse to pick up after themselves,"
• Primarily about dockless bicycles.  Reminded me of the issues with the volunteer yellow bike program in the Twin Cities that was discontinued.
• 6/14/2018: Elasticsearch: Tune for Search Speed
• 6/13/2018: Elasticsearch: Tune for Disk Usage
• 6/12/2018: Elasticsearch Querying is Terribly Slow
• 6/11/2018: How AI And Machine Learning Are Transforming Law Firms And The Legal Sector - not very in depth.  Didn't dig into any of the categories, only a high level look.
• 6/10/2018: Deadpool: The Complete Collection - Volume 3
• 6/9/2018: Deadpool: The Complete Collection - Volume 1
• (BOOK/STORY) 6/8/2018: Head On by John Scalzi
• I liked this better than the last one even with the sports-centric theme.  A great mystery/action book.
• 6/7/2018: An Elasticsearch Crash Course
• Refresher on clusters >> indexes >> shards >> primary/replica (lucene indexes)
• And....inverted indexes.
• 6/6/2018: Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync on Quantum Magazine.com
• You get 4-5 items in memory.  I have a note in my margins that says "unless we're referring to GSD tickets in which case you get two"
• Three brain regions.  Two are sensory or real time (feedforward) and one is modeling (feedback) that tries to "guess" what the brain wants to see/interpret.  E.g. it's working with the sensory info to tweak internal models.  It's a predictive engine.  It's also the bus in terms of throughput because (presumably) model making/tweaking is slower than raw input.  Has some parallels to analytics work.
• One scientist says that basically everything has to fit into a single brainwave (to be sync-ed across the three systems).
• 6/5/2018: 9 tips on ElasticSearch configuration for high performance - Loggly
• Tip 6 is Doc Values.
• 6/4/2018: There Are No Laws of Physics: There's Only the Landscape - Quantum Magazine.com
• I loved this article.  The idea that areas of different quantum properties are still attached via a physics we can't understand, like outposts of livability in a great wilderness.  Awesome metaphor.  "...instead of exploring an archipelago of individual islands, we have discovered one massive continent."
• "Two completely different descriptions of the same physical system"
• There are 19 constants of nature?
• "In string theory, certain features of physics that we usually would consider laws of natures....are in fact solutions."
• "Thinking of physics in terms of elementary building blocks appears to be wrong..."
• 6/3/2018: Dungeons & Dragons, Volume 5 - Shadowplague (graphic novel, reading on Hoopla)
• 6/2/2018: Dungeons & Dragons, Volume 4 - Shadowplague (graphic novel, reading on Hoopla)
• 6/1/2018: The Slippery Math of Causation - Quantum Magazine.com
• This is a puzzle around necessary versus sufficient causes!  I am not smart enough for this puzzle.  I'd cheat and use a computer to model up existing algorithms against my data set.