programming

Pull requests are an important part of programming culture. They serve multiple purposes and vary across teams, organisations and even technologies. In essence, they reflect how a team constantly evolves, both through its individual members and its code. They can be used to teach, fix bugs, refactor code, spark new ideas …

Half-life (t1/2) is the amount of time required for the amount of something to fall to half its initial value. The term is very commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay, but it is also used more generally for discussing any type of exponential decay. I had this …