7 September 2022

42 links · Wednesday

When Your Customers Struggle

When your customers struggle with a non-intuitive interface, would they rather: Wait 6 months while you work on an amazing redesign and brand refresh, or get weekly tweaks that make using your prod…

A review of my time at Remix

As I move on to my next adventure, I want to take this opportunity to review what I accomplished while at Remix.

Dart is Boring | akos.ma

Lately, I’ve been playing with Dart, the programming language powering the cross-platform Flutter UI framework. I’ve added a Dart implementation to my collection of (now 21) programming languages in the Conway project, and another to the collection of sample F…

Stable Diffusion

On the 22nd of this month, Stability.ai released Stable Diffusion, a free, open-source AI tool for generating images from text prompts (and other images). Previously, access to this technology was available through Open AI’s commercial, invite-only DALL-E 2 pl…

Multimodal Image-text Classification

Understand the top deep learning image and text classification models CMA-CLIP, CLIP, CoCa, and MMBT used in e-commerce.

Boris Cherny's Blog

You often hear that “timing matters”. It helps to think about this as two related concepts: time and timing.

On Security Against Time Traveling Adversaries

If you had a time machine, what cryptography would you be able to break? In this work, we investigate the notion of time travel, formally defining models for adversaries equipped with a time machine, and exploring the consequences for cryptography. We find th…

Monitoring I/O inside of RavenDB

Earlier this year I talked about the reasoning behind the RavenDB team spending so much time building self monitoring diagnostics. Today I’m happy to...

WikiHouse

WikiHouse is a digitally-manufactured building system that makes it simple for anyone to build beautiful, zero-carbon homes.

Azure Data Explorer Supports Native Ingestion from Amazon S3

Microsoft recently announced the ability to natively ingest data from Amazon S3 into Azure Data Explorer (ADX). The new feature simplifies multi-cloud data analytics deployments, bringing data from Amazon S3 to Azure, without relying on custom ETL pipelines.

Dragos Inc. - SkillBridge Project Manager Intern

Our mission at Dragos is to protect the world’s most critical infrastructure from adversaries who wish to do it harm. Dragos is proud to support transitioning service members from all U.S. military branches to prepare for their post-military careers by providi…

Dragos Inc. - SkillBridge Reverse/Dissector Engineer Intern

Our Mission at Dragos is to protect the world’s most critical infrastructure from adversaries who wish to do it harm. We help defend industrial organizations that provide us with the tenets of modern civilization: running water, functioning electricity, and sa…

Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM

So many lines in that song have been surpassed, but RAM sticks out as something that hasn’t.

Draw the Light, Not the Asset

In the Graphics category, we'll talk about making art for games. I won't be sharing tool tutorials and such, but rather practical points to consider when cre...

Request Batch

Combine multiple requests to optimally utilise the network.

The State pattern and the State monad

The names are the same. Is there a connection? An article for object-oriented programmers.