Sometimes my practical nature is easily bored by the abstract tasks in LeetCode, HackerRank, and other similar platforms. I've found these challenges to be very entertaining and practical.
I am going to keep a list of them here and update it in case I find more. This will also be a good way to keep track of my progress (and a reminder of unfinished tasks :).
The GNU parallel is a great tool for solving embarrassingly parallel problems. Despite the problem class name parallelization is not embarrassing at all and can be hard to implement. In this post I would like to show some of the simple ETL and ML task parallelization examples using GNU parallel.
Recently I've learned about the git bisect command
and I think it's a very powerful and useful tool to find bugs in your codebase. It allows you
to find the commit that introduced a bug by performing a binary search and even
automating the process of checking out commits and testing them.