The Future of Mathematics?
As a professor of pure mathematics, my job involves teaching, research, and outreach. Two years ago I got interested in formal methods, and I learned how to ...
Focus on things that don't change
Focus on things that don't change to build solid foundations and invest your time in the best possible way.
Dangerously good product managers
Learn the key traits of a successful "dangerous" product manager: product sense, communication, planning, relationship management, and more.
Essays : Jevons
Jevons by Vand
The Fake Product Market Fit
Every other article talks about finding PMF. Almost none talks about losing PMF. Here is our experience on that.
Bing Chat is a Precursor to Something Legitimately Dangerous
AI harm might be closer than we think
Generating 1 Billion Fake People with Julia
In a recent MotherDuck blog post, the author generated 1 billion fake people records using Python in order to analyze the data with DuckDB. I suspect the point of the article was to showcase how awesome duckdb is at handling large amounts of local data, but it…
Game Asset Storage, Loading, Compression and Caching
Background and DirectStorage
Meta Needs A Decade Of Efficiency
Disclosure: I own January 2025 Call Options and Shares of Meta Platforms This is Part-1 of my four-part series on Big Tech. Part-two, three, and four will be on Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft respectively. While this post is made public, the rest of the seri…
Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us - Dhole Moments
An introduction to database cryptography.
Parallelize YouTube downloads
Problem statement
Farewell to Black History Month from ChatGPT
A February 5, 2023 exchange with ChatGPT: What if we change the question slightly? Let’s get away from skin color: I’m sick with envy every time I see a Gulfstream on the ramp. Maybe Ch…
The Collection of Passenger Name Records for Counterterrorism – Dawudi.ch
IntroductionIn spring 2022, the Swiss Federal Police Fedpol proposed a law allowing for the collection of Passenger Name Records PNR from airline companies for the purpose of combating transnational terrorism and serious crime. While airline companies have col…
Core Values Exercise: A Scientific Method for Achieving Life Goals
Discover what you care about with science-based core values exercise. Learn different methods to conduct a life audit leading to a fulfilling life.
On mindsets, mind shifts and wins
A 10-year (ish) retrospective of self-reflection and improvement
Goodbye Business as Usual: Rethinking My Career for the Climate
I have decided to take action by having a job that belongs in a world compatible with the Paris agreements, with no exploitation of fossil fuels.
Some personal user experiences
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Kickoff Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET! What can you do with Microsoft Graph .NET SDK?
Are you a .NET Developer? Do you use .NET in your organization? Join Yina Arenas and Scott Hanselman to learn how you can use Microsoft Graph in ASP.NET/Blaz...
Dealing with the unknown
I've spent some hard months dealing with things that were way out of my comfort zone. I would usually agree that you should always aim to do things out of your comfort zone, but the ROI tends to diminish the further away from your comfort zone you are. In any …
5 Secteurs d'Activité que le Web3 Révolutionne en Ce Moment - Doumer's Blog
5 secteurs d'activité que le web3 révolutionne en ce moment. la blockchain, etc nous apportent beaucoup voici comment.
5 Disruptive Web3 Innovations The Blockchain Brought Us - Doumer's Blog
5 Disruptive Web3 Innovations available today that leverage the blockchain technology to make our lives and the world better.
Naive Bayes Classification Using the scikit Library -- Visual Studio Magazine
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to predict a person's sex based on their job type, eye color and country of residence.
Useful Tricks with Lamar for Integration Testing
Earlier this week I started a new blog series on Wolverine & Marten: Earlier this week I started a new series of blog posts about Wolverine capabilities with: Producer/Consumer Pattern with&nbs…
Tips & Tricks on Upgrading Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Android to .NET for iOS & Android - Xamarin Blog
There has never been a better time to update & migrate your Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android apps to the latest version of .NET to take advantage of the latest features, support, and performance improvements.
GitHub - tg12/gpt_jailbreak_status: This is a repository that aims to provide updates on the status of jailbreaking the OpenAI GPT language model.
This is a repository that aims to provide updates on the status of jailbreaking the OpenAI GPT language model. - GitHub - tg12/gpt_jailbreak_status: This is a repository that aims to provide update...
.NET R&D Digest (February, 2023)
This issue includes stories (more than usual) about past and future, bits of hardware, software development, diagnostics, profiling and of course — a lot of .NET.
Password Purgatory - Making Life Hell for Spammers
Password must start with cat: h3r3wER@gAin
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 - Visual Studio Blog
GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time right from your editor. Trained on billions of lines of public code, GitHub Copilot turns natural language prompts including comments and method names into coding suggestions ac…
If you want to sort a Windows Runtime collection, you may first want to capture it into something a bit easier to manipulate - The Old New Thing
Moving everything into the same universe.
Building with .NET Live with Jeff Fritz | Keep Coding Podcast #5
Hello everybody I'm Nick Chapsas (@nickchapsas) and in this video I will have a chat with Jeff Fritz, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and executive pr...
YouTube
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Fanservice
I insulted ChatGPT and it HATES me now
Introducing: UniFi Protect AI 360
UniFi Protect AI 360 is a high-resolution digital pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera designed for overhead-view environments. Simply add Camera AI 360 to your UniFi ...
Azure Application Gateway Now Supports mTLS and OCSP
Microsoft has announced that its Azure Application Gateway, a cloud-based solution that provides secure, scalable, and reliable access to web applications, now supports mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) and Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).
Building a Smart Home - Part 10 Debugging! | LINQ to Fail
You know what's fun? Having to debug your own home...
Optimising Images for the Web
Optimising Images for the Web
Introducing: UniFi Protect AI 360
UniFi Protect AI 360 is a high-resolution digital pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera designed for overhead-view environments. Simply add Camera AI 360 to your UniFi ...
Difference Between Returning and Awaiting a Task in C#
Explanation of the differences between returning and awaiting a Task in an asynchronous method in C# with examples.
How to Use GitHub Copilot Labs to improve your Code Quality and Productivity
I am a computer science student at Kenya's Kirinyaga University and a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. As a student, I am committed to gaining new skills and knowledge in the field of computer science, and I am always looking for opportunities to apply my k…
Getting Out of Character - Simple Talk
In this article, Joe Celko gives us a history of the different character sets that are used in computing and how that can pertain to your usage in relational databases. Some of these you may have never heard of!
Get started with Microsoft Graph .NET SDK! - March 2nd 4PM GMT
Hack Together is a hackathon for beginners to get started building apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET. In this hackathon, you will kick-start learning how to build apps with Microsoft Graph and develop apps based on the given Top Microsoft Graph Scenarios, f…
Speed Up ASP.NET Core JSON APIs with Source Generators
Using System.Text.Json source generators from .NET 6 to improve JSON API performance
Lambda cold starts for .NET applications are not so bad | no dogma blog
Many people are worried about cold starts for .NET applications on AWS Lambda, but they are probably not as bad as you think - they are not that frequent, and they are not that slow.
Debugging Visual Studio issues
After upgrading to the latest Visual Studio version, I started to get issues. Everytime I opened up Visual Studio it closes after a few seco...
Automatically generating tests for JS/TS functions in VS Code with GitHub Copilot
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