16 July 2023

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How I Wrote a Book Last Night

Discover how AI was used to write a book in a single night. Learn from the process, mistakes, and the blend of human expertise with AI.

Bypassing Internet Censorship Using SSH

As censorship systems like GFW(Great Firewall of China) and Roskomnadzor(Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology) have evolved, people have fought back and developed numerous tools, methods, and protocols to bypass th…

Score-Based Diffusion Models

Score-based diffusion models are a promising direction for generative models, as they improve on both likelihood-based approaches like variational autoencoders, as well as adversarial methods like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this blog post, we …

The Private Equity Model in Medicine is Flawed | Ben White

It can be hard for trainees in the job market to make sense of the current state of affairs. Everyone knows private equity companies have been gobbling up practices around the country in an ever-consolidating market, but the implications of this trend are anot…

How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania

Kei trucks are a special designation of Japanese car that have very small engines (660cc) and dimensions (~10m^3). Tell 'em, Wikipedia. Whoever coined the idea of "creative constraints" should take a gander at Kei trucks; there's definitely an upper bound:

Re: Ansible

I recently started a new position as a team leader and received an email with an attachment and this subject:

Fun with DNS TXT Records

TXT Record Specification Primer # Reading through the RFC Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String Attributes to summarise the relevant part: Any printable ASCII character is permitted for the attribute name. More importantly, on the restrictions…

Elevate Your .NET Testing Strategy #1: WebApplicationFactory

The WebApplicationFactory class in .NET provides a powerful tool for integration testing. It allows you to create a factory for bootstrapping an application in memory for testing. This article provides an overview of how to use WebApplicationFactory to create…