7 September 2021

48 links ยท Tuesday

Teaching people to fish

When and how to not directly give answers as a mentor.

Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it

This is a problem many people who love doing creative stuff (writing, music, painting, pottery, calligraphy, anything creative and origin...

Integration Testing: IHost Lifecycle with xUnit.Net

I’m part of an initiative at work to analyze and ultimately improve our test automation practices. As part of that work, I’ll be blogging quite a bit about test automation starting with…

The ASP.NET Team @TheASPNETTeam

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Differential Evolution Optimization -- Visual Studio Magazine

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains stochastic gradient descent (SGD) neural network training, specifically implementing a bio-inspired optimization technique called differential evolution optimization (DEO).

Ask the Expert: What's New in C# 10.0

Join lead designer of the C# language Mads Torgersen and Senior Cloud Advocate Christina Warren as they talk through what folks can expect in the upcoming C#...

Musings: How to Beat Greg Abbott, revisited

Way back in early February, I made a bold proclamation: despite his decades in office in millions in his campaign coffers, Governor Greg Abbott was eminently beatable in 2022.

Ordering asynchronous updates with coroutines, part 2: Restart with hand-off

Another serialization pattern for coroutines is where calling some method initiates some asynchronous activity, and if the method gets called again while the activity is still incomplete, you want to let the previous activity run to completion, and then run it…

“The Door Problem” – Liz England

“So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait, you’re a programmer?”

What’s New with Cloudflare for SaaS?

Today, we’re excited to announce all the customizations that our team has been working on for our Enterprise customers — for both Cloudflare for SaaS and SSL for SaaS.

The Sexadecimal Mysteries

What sexadecimal is, what makes it so strange, and why it matters. Dave takes you on a tour starting with HAL-9000's birthplace of Urbana, Illinois, to trac...

A primer on the OpenAI API - Part 3

...or what I should have known before I jumped in and started playing around. In this post I cover few shot learning and fine-tuning.

A primer on the OpenAI API - Part 1

...or what I should have known before I jumped in and started playing around. In this post I cover the basics of tokens, the model and prompt design.

A primer on the OpenAI API - Part 2

...or what I should have known before I jumped in and started playing around. In this post I cover logprobs and the "creativity" controls.

Making world-class docs takes effort

Here are six requirements that I have on a project for it to reach my gold approval for stellar docs. Then something about what I’ve done recently to further improve the docs for curl.