Across the Techverse #5

Your one-stop resource to the technical writing world.

Hello, world!

Welcome to another issue of Across the Techverse, your one-stop resource to stay updated with the most incredible tech writers in Substack and beyond.

The Tech Writers Stack is growing! We have over 180 subscribers, and our Directory Page keeps improving. We just added view counts, so every time your techwriters.info/* URL gets hit, we’ll know ;)

NOTE: If you previously registered for our directory via a Substack comment, we kindly ask that you update your info in the following Google Form (if you still haven’t done so) to feature you in our new directory.

🎥 Previously on The Stack

Last Wednesday, our rising star

Edem Gold 🇳🇬

interviewed Quincy Larson, founder of freeCodeCamp. Quincy shares his wisdom on managing and growing one of the largest tech-ed communities in the world.

This week we relaunched the Tech Writing Challenge with two excellent replies.

Josh Brake

explains light absorption and scattering while

Andrew Smith

tells us about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, both in less than 300 words.

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🔍 Discover new tech writers

This week we want to shout another batch of tech substacks and blogs added to our newly minted directory. You probably already know most of these but check if you’ve missed a hidden gem.

• Confessions of a Code Addict: Unlocking modern algorithms and research through practical coding. Welcome to the space where hard computer science becomes accessible.

• Polymathic Being: Counterintuitive insights from technology, innovation, philosophy, psychology, and more.

• Coping with Caring: Wide-ranging. Mixed topics. Caring, Health, Arduino, Robots.

• Use AI: Sjoerd talks about practical and actual useful ways to apply AI, without the hype.

• Teaching computers how to talk: A small window into the world of conversational AI.

• The Upgrade: A weekly column where I deep-dive into one topic and curate ideas, progress, and curiosities that interest me.

• The Intelligent Blog: Anything that has to do with data analysis, machine learning, deep learning, AI

• Cyborgs Writing: I explore the creative interaction between humans and machines.

Check the directory for the complete list, and register below:

🥳 Community celebrations

Need a few reasons to celebrate?

• Jurgen Gravestein
  celebrates reaching 1000 subscribers on
  Teaching computers how to talk
  !

• Michael Woudenberg
  is celebrating getting the first physical copy of his upcoming book!

• Andrew Smith
  is celebrating three collaborative articles published this week in
  GoatFury's FutureScape
  !

🔥 Best content of the week

This is a list of the coolest articles published in our community last week:

• Phantom Observer published #01 Viveka-to-the many : Informative Symphony of Life.

• The Software & Data Spectrum published 2 articles:

  • - Introduction to Computer Science: The Basics (Part Two Final).

  • - Introduction to Computer Science: The Basics (Part One).

• Goatfury's Futurescapes published 8 articles:

  • - Intellectual Entropy.

  • - Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Philanthropy.

  • - Exasperating AI Infrastructures: A Roadmap to the Future.

  • - Moore's Law.

  • - Optional Augmentation.

  • - Turing 2023.

  • - We Still Don't Have Hoverboards.

  • - The Stanford Prison Experiment Updated.

• Polymathic Being published 2 articles:

  • - Tradition!

  • - Fail Early, Fail Often... Or Maybe Not?.

• Aurum Bits published #4 Aurum Finds.

• The Python Coding Stack published 2 articles:

  • - Collecting Things • Python's Collections (Data Structure Categories #5).

  • - And Now for the Conclusion: The Manor's Oak-Panelled Library and __getitem__()[Part 2].

• Algorithmically Speaking published Algorithmically Speaking - #9: Maximum Subarray Sum.

• The AI Observer published a Weeκly newsletter covering the latest developments in the world of AI 🔥.

• The Upgrade published 🛺The Exciting and bumpy road to Asia.

• technaelogy published social media is dead.

• Cyborgs Writing published How to Leverage Prompt Blocks To Foster Innovative Mindsets in Students.

• Breaking the Rules published Sharing Cupcakes (Ep. 1).

• Teaching computers how to talk published Did GPT-4 Really Develop A Theory Of Mind?

• Confessions of a Code Addict published Code Confessions Digest #4: News, and Resources from Last Week.

• Under the Hype published Towards Quantum Computing (I).

• The Intelligent Blog published Model Decay vs. Concept Drift: do we need to re-label our data to improve accuracy?

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