Awesome List Updates on Oct 17, 2020

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1. Awesome Credit Modeling

Introduction

Machine Learning in Credit Risk Modeling - James (formerly CrowdProcess) is a now-defunct online credit risk management startup that provided risk management tools to financial institutions. This whitepaper offers an overview of machine learning applications in the field of credit risk modeling.

2. Awesome Board Games

Strategy

Stone Age

In Stone Age, players live in the early days of human history, competing for food and collecting resources to expand their tribe and achieve new levels of civilization. Take turns assigning your tribe members to limited areas on the board that benefit you in different ways, sequence your actions strategically and feed your people to avoid losing points or resources.

Stone Age

Players	Min. Age	Time
2 - 4	10	60-90m

3. Awesome Libgdx

Resources / Visual Effects

libgdx-screenmanager (⭐79) - A screen manager for libGDX supporting various transition effects

4. Free Programming Books (Chinese)

5. Awesome Cpp

Compression

KArchive - A library for creating, reading, writing and manipulating file archives like zip and tar. It also provides transparent compression and decompression of data, using formats like gzip, via a subclass of QIODevice. [LGPL]

6. Awesome Umbraco

Official

CodeGarden Conference

Community

24 Days In Umbraco - yearly advent calendar for Umbraco content.

Candid Contributions - a fortnightly podcast discussing all things Umbraco and open source.

Official YouTube Channel - the Umbraco community YouTube channel.

Backoffice extensions

Contentment - A handy collection of Umbraco components developed for use in your Umbraco projects.

7. Mind Expanding Books

Philosophy And Psychology

Name: The Slight Edge - Secret to a Successful Life

Author: Jeff Olson

Goodreads Rating: 4.39

Year Published: 2005

8. Awesome Elixir

Date and Time

calixir (⭐2) - Calixir is a port of the Lisp calendar software calendrica-4.0 to Elixir.

Testing

Walkman (⭐54) - Isolate tests from the real world, inspired by Ruby's VCR.

9. Awesome R Learning Resources

Topic Areas / Viz

Chart Suggestions — A thought-starter on choosing the way to show your data - Author: Andrew Abela, Ph.D.

10. Awesome Engineering Team Management

Roles / Engineering Managers

“One of your roles is to act as an information filter in both directions” (source) - Some tips on how to balance which kind of information needs to be shared or muted.

A vitally important part of the job: being a crap shield - “A lot of the work of an EM is wading into the slurry pit with a shovel so your team are free to get the job done”.

Engineering / The Technical Engineering Manager

Do engineering managers need to be technical? - Yes. “Looking forward to the next 30 years of management trends, only a few things seem certain: Managers should be technical, and the definition of technical will continue to change.”

“The best managers I met tended to be those that if the circumstance required it, could do the job of those two levels below.” (source) - Another way of putting it: managers needs domain knowledge and to know the work their reports do.

“Over the years we have developed the policy that it is important for the supervisor to thoroughly know and understand the work of his group.” (source) - This quote is from David Packard (HP co-founder), decades before current management fad.

Career / Presentations

Levels of abstraction in engineering management - Another take on the differences between Manager, Manager of Managers, Head of Org and Head of Function.

Amazon Wants to 'Win at Games.' So Why Hasn't It? - “Any product manager can go between any business—from groceries to film to games to Kindle. The skillset is interchangeable. They just have to learn the particular market.”

Health / Acquisition

Good sleep, good learning, good life - An e-book-sized synthesis on sleep research “with a view to practical applications, esp. in people who need top-quality sleep for their learning or creative achievements.”