orig: Contributions to a source code repository that uses a distributed version control system (DVCS) are commonly made by means of a pull request, also known as a merge request.[9] The contributor requests that the project maintainer pull the source code change, hence the name "pull request". The maintainer has to merge the pull request if the contribution should become part of the source base. (more)

David Masters: Are Pull Requests Holding Back Your Team? Pull requests are great for open source. But they can hinder the team performance. (more)

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This Is The Website of Gwern Branwen. I write (freelance) about psychology, statistics, and technology. I am best known for work on the darknet markets & Bitcoin⁠, blinded self-experiments⁠, dual n-back & spaced repetition⁠ (SRS), and anime neural networks⁠. https://www.gwern.net/

Meaning Making

Paul Graham: Putting Ideas into Words. Writing about something, even something you know well, usually shows you that you didn't know it as well as you thought. (more)

Knowledge Adventure Clubs are the intersection of book clubs and Dungeons and Dragons. Joel Hooks idea (2020). (more)

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D[2] or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997. It was derived from miniature wargames with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system.[3] D&D's publication is widely regarded as the beginning of modern Role Playing Game-s and the role-playing game industry.[4] D&D departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play instead of a military formation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons (more)

Wesley Yang is an American essayist and public intellectual. He is currently a columnist for Tablet magazine and a contributor editor for Esquire. Yang was born to Korean-American parents who were refugees from the Korean War and was raised in New Jersey.[1] He studied history at Rutgers University. Yang attracted mainstream attention in 2008 after publishing an article in n+1 about Seung-Hui Cho, the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shooting. He has since then written extensively about the experiences of Asian-Americans in American society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Yang

The word "mid-witted" was popularized by far-right activist and writer Vox Day. On February 17th, 2012, Vox Day[1] published the blog post "The tragedy of the mid-witted" in which he commented on a life story article "Lessons of a very sexy pirate costume" by Jennifer Wright... The term "midwit," meaning a person of average intelligence, saw use on 4chan starting in late 2013... On January 1st, 2017, an anonymous 4chan[6] user made the earliest found post which used the IQ bell curve diagram to argue about the similarity of political views of groups with low and high intelligence... On June 24th, 2019, an anonymous /pol/[11] user posted a Manlet meme referencing the horseshoe theory interpretation of the IQ bell curve... The viral popularity of the format began on March 10th, 2010, when an anonymous 4chan[15] user posted a meme about Ted Kaczynski and the anarcho-primitivistic ideology. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit (more)

GCP serverless function https://cloud.google.com/functions (more)

Amazon Neptune is a managed graph database product published by Amazon.com. It is used as a web service and is part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It was announced on November 29, 2017.[1] Amazon Neptune supports popular graph models property graph and W3C's RDF, and their respective query languages Apache TinkerPop's Gremlin,[2] openCypher, and SPARQL,[3] including other Amazon Web Services products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Neptune https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/

Graph Query Language intended standard for Graph Databases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_Query_Language (more)

Google Web Services Platform. Equivalent to Amazon Web Services. Became Google Cloud Platform. (more)

aka GCP, Google Cloud Platform - Google's version of AWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform https://cloud.google.com/gcp (more)

Google Cloud Platform is a part[6] of Google Cloud, which includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well as Google Workspace (G Suite), enterprise versions of Android and Chrome OS, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and enterprise mapping services.

Replit (rep·lit), formerly Repl.it, is a San Francisco-based start-up and an online IDE (integrated development environment).[3] Its name comes from the acronym REPL, which stands for "read–evaluate–print loop". Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, and Haya Odeh co-founded the company in 2016... In 2009, Masad tried to write every programming language in JavaScript, but it was not practical. He saw great leaps in browser and web technologies and he was inspired by Google Docs web capabilities. He thought of the idea of being able to write code in a browser and make it easy to share it. He spent two years creating an open-source product with Haya Odeh called "JSRepl".[9] This product allowed him to compile languages into JavaScript. This product powered Udacity and Codecademy's tutorials. After becoming an early employee of Codecademy, this project was put off until years later, when he and Odeh decided to revive the project of a programming environment in a browser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replit (more)

see GoogleCloud

Cypher is a declarative graph query language that allows for expressive and efficient data querying in a property graph.[1] Cypher was largely an invention of Andrés Taylor while working for Neo4j, Inc. (formerly Neo Technology) in 2011.[2] Cypher was originally intended to be used with the graph database Neo4j, but was opened up through the openCypher project in October 2015.[3] The language was designed with the power and capability of SQL (standard query language for the relational database model) in mind, but Cypher was based on the components and needs of a database built upon the concepts of graph theory. In a graph model, data is structured as nodes (vertices in math and network science) and relationships (edges in math and network science) to focus on how entities in the data are connected and related to one another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypher_(query_language) (more)

enclosure of the Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure (more)