I was asked during an interview the other day from Paris whether I was a Post Keynesian. I replied not at all and explained that I have never felt that my ideas fit into that category although in a facile sense we are all post keynesian in a temporal sense. Mo…
The code that scikit-learn comprises has been committed to by 8529+ people.
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numpy/numpy - 1581
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joblib/threadpoolctl - 10
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It is possible that some of these people introduced typo changes,…
Goals are good for setting a direction, for giving you something to achieve. But systems are how you make progress. Goals are for the future. Systems give you something actionable and satisfying to do in the present.
Optimizing PostgreSQL is a relevant and controversial topic ("How much resources should I invest in optimization vs. hardware?"): The first part of the series, <a href="https://robertrode.com/2023/11/15/operating-an-entire-company-on-a-minimal-two-core-postgre…
Discover how to effortlessly track competitors with a no-code tool combining Gmail, Google Sheets, ChatGPT, and Zapier. Learn to automate competitor analysis for insights and strategic advantage, without needing coding skills.
Last summer, a group of CMU researchers developed one of the first automated red-teaming methods for LLMs [1]. Their approach, the Greedy Coordinate Gradient (GCG) algorithm, was able to jailbreak white-box models like Vicuna convincingly and models like Llama…
Greetings, fellow traveller. By this point in your journey you may have ran across the enigmatic Eric S. Raymond a couple of times; I assume you have hit upon this page because of a legendary and exact blade he has forged called reposurgeon. However, you, like…
andrew-quinn.me·Convert SVN authors to Git authors··9-11 minutesgitlinuxpython
Late last year I was starting to hype myself up to write more. One thing I got hung up on was, “how do I post from my phone”? Honestly, I’m still slightly hung up on this. But thinking it through: I really don’t post enough that it can’t wait until I’m in fron…
Are you a millionaire? Would you like to show off your millionaire status without exposing your level of wealth? Let’s see how to solve the “are you a millionaire?” problem with elegant cryptography.
At some point in your managerial life, you may find yourself in a situation where someone on your team is over-leveled i.e: their compensation or title is meaningfully higher than what their impact merits. Maybe you overestimated their seniority when hiring th…
Researchers find large language models use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge when they respond to a user prompt. These mechanisms can be leveraged to see what the model knows about different subjects and possibly to correct false information it h…
In this post I describe how to use the Microsoft WebView2 control to automate HTML to PDF generation generically for any kind of Windows application, including services. We'll look at the WebView and it's printing functionality and some of the intricacies that…
One of the most fun things that I do at work is share knowledge about how various things work. A few months ago I talked internally about how Certificates wo...
Hackaday recently published an article titled “Why x86 Needs to Die” – the latest addition in a long-running RISC vs CISC debate. Rather than x86 needing to die, I believe the RISC vs C…
While a good design does make websites and applications more attractive and give them a professional finish, that’s not the only thing it does—not even close!
A few years back, I wrote a short explainer about User Gestures, a web platform concept whereby certain sensitive operations (e.g. opening a popup window) will first attempt to confirm whether the …
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