Meaningful work Meaningful work can be understood as activity that adds value to society. Work adds value to society when its outcomes enhance what that specific society values. This article proposes a concise definition of meaningful work grounded in societal value creation. Author David Muhr Published October 23, 2025 After reading about Bullshit Jobs , a rant about meaningless jobs, I wanted to…
The importance of local development Local development is crucial for efficient software development, it enables faster iteration, better debugging and ensures consistency between local and production environments. Author David Muhr Published October 6, 2024 A good developer experience (DX) increases productivity, reduces cognitive load, and improves developer satisfaction, leading to higher code…
Beautiful interpolation Interpolation is the process of deriving a function from a set of data points so that the function passes through all the given points and can be used to estimate points in-between the given ones. Author David Muhr Published March 1, 2018 Activate JavaScript to enable mathematical typesetting powered by KaTex . Approximating continuously defined functions from given…
Principal component analysis Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimensionality reduction procedure that uses a linear transformation to express data in a more suitable basis that preserves most variation in the data. Author David Muhr Published February 20, 2018 Activate JavaScript to enable mathematical typesetting powered by KaTex . A data set of real-valued measurements can be…