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Duana Saskia

Affirming expertise

I was asked recently by a senior colleague if I know what a circuit breaker is. It was genuinely well intentioned; many engineers haven’t…

4 min readMar 8, 2022

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Green Sea Turtle flying with glee over the Coral Sea in the Great Barrier Reef. Blue hues of sea and beautiful reddish brown turtle shell.

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Duana Saskia

Musings on curvature and twist of a space curve vector calculus

8 min readApr 26, 2021

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Musings on curvature and twist of a space curve vector calculus

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Duana Saskia

Discovering Ada’s Bernoulli Numbers, Part 1

Have you ever wondered what the first computer program, designed by Ada Lovelace, was supposed to do? Hint: it didn’t print out “Hello…

9 min readOct 8, 2018

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Discovering Ada’s Bernoulli Numbers, Part 1

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Pascal’s Triangle Reloaded: Combinations with repetitions

In my previous post on Pascal’s triangle I showed how to derive the formulas for permutations and combinations and why they correspond to…

9 min readMay 4, 2018

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Pascal’s Triangle Reloaded: Combinations with repetitions

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Duana Saskia

Interview tips: the free-form technical chat

Being interviewed is, next to giving talks, pretty damn stressful. And like talks, it doesn’t seem to matter how much experience I have, I…

3 min readApr 4, 2018

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Duana Saskia

Compound interest confoundedly profound

Finally I can tell you why I started this maths blog series. I was supposed to be doing something for my financial future. I thought “hmm I…

6 min readOct 13, 2017

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Compound interest confoundedly profound

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Pascal’s Triangle: how I love how thee let me count the ways

The Staircase of Mount Meru. Khayyam’s Triangle. Yang Hui’s Triangle. There are many names for Pascal’s Triangle.

9 min readAug 18, 2017

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Pascal’s Triangle: how I love how thee let me count the ways

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Duana Saskia

This week I start a new job as VP of Engineering, Apps at Clue!

I made the decision to leave a couple of months ago and the recent news has been hard. SoundCloud has been the best company to work for…

4 min readJul 21, 2017

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This week I start a new job as VP of Engineering, Apps at Clue!

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Geometric series: means to no end

You might have heard this old nursery rhyme:

8 min readApr 9, 2017

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Geometric series: means to no end

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Duana Saskia

Improving everyday decisions

Decision paralysis. That state you fall into when you stand perplexed before an everyday decision: you are no longer present in the world…

5 min readFeb 25, 2017

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Improving everyday decisions

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Duana Saskia

Duana Saskia

Everyone is technical. I love computers, education, foreign languages & coffee. Software Engineer. Accept-Language: de, pt-br, pt, id, ms, en-gb, en

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