What I learned this week

Software

IEEE 754 on floating point numbers

“If you want to know what’s actually reflected in your data, you may need to profile it. Needles in haystacks aren’t revealed by “select * from haystack limit 100”. You’ll probably just get 100 rows of hay.”

Business/Finance

Walgreens Debt Burden apparently a lot of their fundamental real estate is leased.

How does Linux move from an awake machine to a hibernating one?

Math/Stats

Travel

Kitt Peak Observatory

Other

“I know that a Tomato is a fruit, and I also know not to put it in a fruit salad”

Interesting take on Student Debt