In the realm of multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, threshold signing is the protocol that address how multiple participants can sign something under a "shared" private key. In other words, instead of one guy signing something with a private key, we want …
Recently I had a phone interview where I got asked a variety of Java questions. This kind of thing is standard, and most of the questions were somewhat standard: * What is polymorphism? * What’s the difference between a List and a Set? When would you use on…
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with yo...
This app tracks the price of Big Mac at every McDonald's location across the U.S.
Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-...
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htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extend…
In this video we will be discussion C# features you might not be aware of.Support me on Patreon to access the source code:https://www.patreon.com/mohamadlawa...
Run local LLaMA/GPT model easily and fast in C#!🤗 It's also easy to integrate LLamaSharp with semantic-kernel, unity, WPF and WebApp. - GitHub - SciSharp/LLamaSharp: Run local LLaMA/GPT model e...
One of the common misconceptions of Windows applications are that they are inherently insecure and that it’s not possible to build and deploy applications that are secure by default. If you look at other platforms, such as iOS and Android, applications have re…
One Billion Row Challenge in .NET is faster than Java and even faster than C++ with realistic input data.
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, we'll continue to explore iterators and moving to a paging approach in C#!
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Valve has shown to occasionally not act on community feedback and bug reports. A story about a decade old bug.
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In this article, we will explore a new C# 12 feature called Collection Expressions, along with some code samples.
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Welcome to another Behind The Screen vlog. I picked up a fancy new toy that I'll be using to incorporate into my videos for designing systems!
A reactive notebook for Python — run reproducible experiments, execute as a script, deploy as an app, and version with git. - GitHub - marimo-team/marimo: A reactive notebook for Python — run repro...
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NeurIPS is the top conference for artificial intelligence (AI) research [2]. It offers an excellent opportunity to present your work to fellow researchers, gain a sense of the latest developments in AI, and connect with the people driving the field. Despite ha…
I recently read about the news that garbage collection support, which was added to C++, is now actually being removed from it. Apparently most people didn’t use it, or even knew it was officially added, so it is no great loss. It always shocks me to read artic…
Every now and then, I see someone post their latest and greatest set of CSS resets. Here’s mine.
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I've been a software developer for nearly 10 years. These are some of the lessons I have learned along the way.
After over a year of fighting with Eleventy and then Astro to set up a this blog just right I find myself needing to set up yet another blog, this time for work. I could just build on what I’ve got with Astro but I can’t help but wonder if I would have been be…
Security tends to lag behind adoption, and AI/ML is no exception. Four months ago, Adnan Khan and I exploited a critical CI/CD vulnerability in PyTorch, one of the world’s leading ML platform…
Three days before the New Year's, I had an idea to build a simple printable calendar app.
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June 2001 In my final year of University, after months of applying for jobs, I was close to giving up hope. It was 2001 when one man finally gave me a chance, and made me realise I might be able to make something of myself. The man was Mark Smith. He was the b…
Discover the key elements in optimizing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with smart chunking, embedding models, and hybrid search strategies. Evaluate with metrics like Hit Rate, MRR, MAP, and NDCG. Enhance user experience by enabling follow-up questions. …
This post explains how to run Wikipedia offline on Linux inside a Docker container. Prerequisites (not explained here): a web browser to access the offline copy a Linux server connected to your net…
Delegating handlers are like ASP.NET Core middleware. Except they work with the HttpClient. I'll show you how to work with delegating handlers
I've just finished the final rewrite of my website. I'm not lying: this is the last time I'm ever going to do it. This website has gone through countless rewrites – from WordPress to Jekyll to multiple static site …
With an ever-growing collection of text content on the web, and ever-growing LLM-powered systems that automatically interact with such data, scalable content moderation emerges as a significant challenge. One seemingly reasonable solution is from OpenAI. Since…
TL;DR While reasoning is important, readers may not be interested in all the frustrations I experienced while figuring out how to get things done. If you’re looking for a quick solution, skip to the “What eventually worked?” section. However, if you’re interes…
I volunteer with a great local program. Through it, I help connect newcomers to the local tech scene. One of the standard pieces of advice I give is: get a library card.
The tool instructions in this article are not up to date as of 1/11/2024, see this post to learn more about the new tool OpenAI added to block conversations about U.S. elections using function calls.
The personal website of Colin Ramsay, a software developer from Cornwall who is the Technical Director with Go Tripod
What would it take to migrate away from Terraform Cloud? After Hashicorp moved to resource-based pricing and BSL license last year, this question is on the roadmaps of many infrastructure teams. This article outlines the scope of such a migration. In this art…
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition
People are obsessed with productivity. There are apps that claim to boost your productivity, courses, blog posts, entire books. A question that is rarely asked is: what are you producing? Are you creating worthless proofs of concept for a startup that siphons …