Notes by Lucian Marin https://lucianmarin.com/ en-us Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:04:16 -0000 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:04:16 -0000 Have you ever wondered how Google Maps finds the fastest route or how Netflix recommends what to watch? Graph algorithms are behind these decisions. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/graph-algorithms-in-python-bfs-dfs-and-beyond/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:04:16 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1770660256 Tips and best practices for working with AI coding agents. Honestly, we don't have consensus at Vibe Kanban HQ for how to work with coding agents - everyone uses different tools, in different ways. This is just how Louis does it. https://www.vibekanban.com/vibe-guide Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:07:30 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1768151250 But the core loop? It's exactly what we built here. The LLM decides what to do, your code executes it, results flow back. That's the whole architecture. https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:18:41 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1767993521 You can't force yourself to think faster. If you try, you're likely to end up making much worse decisions. https://fs.blog/2021/03/thinking-rate-fixed/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:49:35 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1614635375 Because programming has become an essential component of engineering, science, medicine, media, business, finance, and many other fields, it is important for scientists and engineers to have a basic foundation in computer programming to be competitive. https://pythonnumericalmethods.berkeley.edu/notebooks/Index.html Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:48:14 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1613569694 You should only code when you feel within you some completely new and important idea, clear to you but unintelligible to others, and when the need to express this idea gives you no peace. http://russianliteratureandbiography.com/505/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:44:40 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1597358680 ...it is in the nature of things that many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed backward. https://www.anup.io/2020/07/20/invert-always-invert/ Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:58:47 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1595804327 In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:04:27 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1594238667 Our communications with each other should be guided by the robustness principle: Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept. https://deniseyu.io/2020/05/23/habits-of-high-performing-teams.html Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:58:52 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1593410332 That's the goal, really. Simplify understanding. No surprises. Honest code. https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/functional-code-is-honest-code Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:31:35 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1591921895 BaseUrlSession allows you to specify the base URL for the HTTP client and to only specify the resource path at the time of the request. https://findwork.dev/blog/advanced-usage-python-requests-timeouts-retries-hooks/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:48:34 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1583351314 Spark can read files residing on the local filesystem, any storage source supported by Hadoop, Amazon S3, and so on. Spark supports text files, SequenceFiles, any other Hadoop Input Format, directories, compressed files and wildcards. https://www.oreilly.com/learning/hadoop-with-python Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:28:35 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1571689715 I want to note that all those features are part of Python standard library, so whenever you decide to implement something in Python first go looking for it in standard library. https://martinheinz.dev/blog/1 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:55:54 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1569830154 Understanding generic neural networks by building the popular AI library Keras using base Python. https://teddymarchildon.com/blog/1 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 20:13:52 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1564172032 Examples of exciting features you can only use in Python 3 in the hopes that it will make solving your problems with Python easier. https://datawhatnow.com/things-you-are-probably-not-using-in-python-3-but-should/ Wed, 15 May 2019 11:50:35 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1557921035 With the commercialization of the fifth-generation, or 5G, of superfast mobile communication format approaching, 11-digit numbers are expected to run out as early as fiscal 2022. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/14/national/japan-plans-create-10-billion-14-digit-phone-numbers-5g-era-approaching/ Wed, 15 May 2019 11:44:27 -0000 https://lucianmarin.com/note/1557920667