michael schmitt

Software Developer in Illinois

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Interesting articles automatically collected from around the web

» Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org · Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. From chaotic assemblies of life, order somehow emerges. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz interviews the evolutionary ecologist Iain Couzin about how and why collective behaviors arise.
» Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
newatlas.com · Scientists have discovered that a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event is underway, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants.
» Front-end development’s identity crisis
ellyloel.com · I’m not a “[full-stack] developer”, regardless of what my last job title says
» Code Search is Hard
blog.val.town · Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard