Reinforcement Learning should be better seen as a “fine-tuning” paradigm that can add capabilities to general-purpose foundation models, rather than a paradigm that can bootstrap intelligence from scratch.
You've probably seen a lot of your friends share their Wordle emoji grids these past few weeks. It's a game, akin to Mastermind, that has gone viral for its simplicity yet challenge. I was curious how the game worked so I decided to pick apart the source code…
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PHP's native random_int() function can be used to easily create a weighted random choice between multiple, otherwise equal options.
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“Every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” - Neil Armstrong I was talking to a friend recently abou...
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It’s always been hard to hire engineers, but it’s only gotten harder in recent months. Read any publication that cares about business, from the NYT to the Wall Street Journal, and you’ll see a ton of hand wringing about The Quittening, and the accompanying tal…
A gentle introduction to parsing in Rust with Nom
How long can a Turing machine program run when started on the blank tape before the tape becomes blank again? Of course, this will depend on the length of the program – how many states and colors it has. Even given these parameters, it is logically impossible …
Keeping a journal does wonders for my learning, mental fitness and life reflections. Let me try to explain… Think of a good conversation you had with a friend. Remember afterwards how you might have felt at ease? That your thoughts were more organised? A journ…
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In this episode, Jeffrey is rejoined by Aaron Stannard for the second half of their two part interview! Be sure to turn into last week’s episode, “Aaron Stannard on the Actor Model with Akka.NET | Part 1” to learn all about Aaron’s career history and the creat…
Syncfusion's Essential Studio 2021 Volume 4 has shipped with many new controls for .NET MAUI, also adding .NET 6 support for ASP.NET Core and it's red-hot Blazor component.
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Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
Spotify is hiring Backend Engineers to join our Free Product engineering organization. Our team is charged with scaling Spotify's Free Product. Your work will impact our 129 Million free monthly active users and millions of artists either by working directly o…
Write infrastructure-free applications and compile them into a cloud-native ones. All the benefits of serverless/microservices, without the hassle.
Eric Bailey recently wrote on CSS-Tricks about testing your website on a crappy laptop and it reminded me of this anecdote from my own life.
Window.js is an open-source Javascript runtime for desktop graphics programming.
Well, it is, sometimes. It depends. I often get pushback on MediatR for using service location for resolving handlers, often getting pointed at Mark Seemann's post that Service Locator is an Anti-Pattern. And for all of the examples in the post, I agree that s…
At new .NET Tech Community site, a developer sought help with choosing tech for a new Windows/Android app, finding many options to choose from -- perhaps too many.
https://aka.ms/dotNETConf2021-GetdotNET6Building rich communication experiences—enabled by voice, video, chat, email, or SMS—has become an integral part in h...
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“Thanks” to the pandemic, I’ve spent much more time figuring out how to deal with video and live streaming than I ever thought I would. It’s turned out to be a surprisingly rewarding experience. In no particular order, here are some things I’ve learned along t…
Machine learning can be used to add smart capabilities to mobile applications and enhance the user experience. Learn how to integrate machine learning into your Xamarin.Forms application with ONNX Runtime.
As it stands, the answer to this question is going to remain largely subjective. If you have invested in Web3 (whatever it may turn out to be), you're more than likely advocate that it is not. Whereas people who see no real-world application for Web3 are mostl…
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Reuben Harris and Monte Davidoff spent time disassembling Bill Gates’s original Altair BASIC. In an interview with The Register, Harris was impressed with the code, noting with some admiration, “I found a jump instruction that jumped to the middle of another i…
We have finally gotten to the point where we can ask the pager for a page of data (reminder, a page in this case is 8KB of data) and get it back. Here is wha...
In this post I show a couple of handy patterns for source generators: finding a type declaration's namespace and its class hierarchy
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The new Razor editor in Visual Studio 2022 doesn't currently provide intellisense for stylesheets you reference from external sources like NuGet packages…
Has Google's Search Quality deteriorated in recent years? This post measures Google Search using human evaluation.
We’re going to talk about versioning a Rest API and explore the different versioning schemes we have in Asp.net Core.
What are the best masks to protect you from Covid-19? There are hundreds of different brands making a lot of claims, that's why we're testing every mask in our laboratory to see how they measure up. We're testing surgical masks, non-medical 3 ply face masks, N…
The Red Hat Node.js team looks back on highlights from 2021, including Node.js 16 and 17, serverless functions, Next 10, Nodeshift, and more.
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2021 saw great discoveries and achievements in physics, astronomy, and space exploration. In this video, we will be discussing the 5 most exciting discoverie...
This PR adds support for shared-memory parallelism through domains and direct-style concurrency through effect handlers (without syntactic support). It intends to have backwards compatibility in te...
A love letter to Ruby and Rails.
Mike Rousos is back again! This time Mike shows us how to inspect and diagnose large Object Heap churn in .NET[00:00] - Introduction[01:36] - What tools can ...
Personal infrastructure loosely refers to all the tools and systems I have to interact on a regular basis to do my job as a PhD researcher. As a systems researcher, this includes obvious stuff like command-line tools and programming workflow as well as as the …
This document was assembled for students in ECE 4760, who are asked to construct and control a constrained drone like the one described below. I used the RP2040 for the demo videos rather than a PIC32 so that I could make use of the VGA screen for visualizatio…
I recently read an article by Jason Swett where he argues against Sandi Metz’ old chestnut “duplication is better than the wrong abstraction” and it made me feel like I have to articulate why I’m Team Sandi here. I’m sure I’ve used the saying a million times i…
Right now it's legal to build a skyscraper anywhere in Davis, California (a college town outside of Sacramento). Unlimited height, anywhere in city limits, as long as you promise to dedicate 20% of the apartments to people with lower incomes. Well, it's legal …
There is a social contract to Open Source. But who really violates the social contract more: companies or FOSS maintainers?
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I've decided to resign from my tenure-track position and go to industry.