Notes

A collection of notes and things I learned

1. 2023-05-20

   Automatic reference counting in Swift and how it bears in comparison with other approaches to managing memory.

   Reference: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/285336
2. 2022-11-16

   Silicon photonics chips and the research done to use light instead of electrons to transmit data.

   Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_photonics
3. 2022-10-30

   How cosmic rays can cause soft errors in electronics. Check this video by Veritasium

   Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error
4. 2022-08-30

   The Betty Crocker effect, and their "Add an egg" campaign, it simply demonstrate the importance of customer engagement, and how when something is too easy, it loses its value.

   Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-creation
5. 2022-08-29

   The term "Quine" in computer science, which means a program that copy its source code.

   Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29