snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct – Run with an API on Replicate
An efficient, intelligent, and truly open-source language model
Snowflake Arctic: An(other) Efficient and Open-Source LLM is out!
In the rapidly evolving landscape of large language models (LLMs), new contenders are constantly emerging, each pushing the boundaries of what these AI systems can achieve. Among these recent advan…
Why niches matter
How niches move the humanity forward, why they are so pleasant to be in and how they create a space for us to shine.
From the Circle to Epicycles (Part 1)
A visual introduction to Fourier Series
Connell McCarthy - Our wedding
I got married and over-engineered everything.
My experience with Large Language Models
A draft, originally written as a practice for IB's External assessment, about my experience with Artificial Intelligence, and one of the multiple ethical issues
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR
Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong.
Blurry Text Reveal on Scroll | Codrops
A blurry text reveal animation on scroll inspired by Rauno's "Blur reveal".
Composability: Designing a Visual Programming Language — John Austin
Lattice is a high-performance visual scripting system targeting Unity ECS. Read more here . I wanted to write a few posts on the design of Lattice as a language. Today, let's focus on “composability”. This is intuitively something we desire in programmi…
How I Bike to the Airport
I am frustrated by the experience of getting to & from airports: I don’t like driving & paying for parking. I don’t like taxis and their dynamic pricing + “broken” credit card readers. I don’t like Uber/Lyft rideshare and their extortionary pricing. I do like …
Understanding Apache Hudi's Consistency Model Part 1 — Jack Vanlightly
Apache Hudi is one of the leading three table formats (Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake being the other two). Whereas Apache Iceberg internals are relatively easy to understand, I found that Apache Hudi was more complex and hard to reason about. As a distributed…
Fundamentals of I/O in Go: Part 3
Intro Link to heading Welcome to the final part of the Fundamentals of I/O series, where we will learn about buffered I/O. If you haven’t already, I recommend checking out the first two parts: Part One: fundamentals and io functions Part Two: useful types …
Four Patterns Of Data Loading
IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion.
Tracking down a UEFI quirk on the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK AH532
Last time, we figured out why not being able to retrieve EFI variables while installing Linux results in an empty UEFI boot menu and an inaccessible BIOS setup menu. Now, we want to discover what is going wrong and what we can do about it.
Vimmer tries Emacs
Ramblings, mostly
How quickly can you break a long string into lines? – Daniel Lemire's blog
Suppose that you receive a long string and you need to break it down into lines. Consider the simplified problems where you need to break the string into segments of (say) 72 characters. It is a relevant problem if your string is a base64 string or a Fortran f…
Framing engineering discussions with a business perspective | Matt Joseph
Framing engineering discussions with a business perspective, with the purpose of guiding, simplifying, and expediting those discussions.
No Database No Retention No Party
One month ago I wrote this article You don’t need a database, a queue, a distributed system: Go is enough. and I posted it on HackerNews. The result was interesting: it generated quite a bit of discussion and a lot of people decided to play with Binary Duel. T…
HTML attributes vs DOM properties
They're completely different, but often coupled.
Why we suck at estimating software projects
You can plan, strategize, chunk, fold, spindle, and mutilate a project for countless person-hours, and you still won’t know the difficulties that lay ahead in actually writing the code.
Introducing .NET MAUI Community Tookit v8: TouchBehavior support is here! - .NET Blog
The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit version 8.0 has been released with the highly anticipated TouchBehavior on board!
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 6 - The Old New Thing
Using a change counter with coalescing.
DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Piet
Composition with Red,Yellow and Blue.1921, Piet Mondrian.
Meta does everything OpenAI should be [D]
I'm surprised (or maybe not) to say this, but Meta (or Facebook) democratises AI/ML much more than OpenAI, which was originally founded and...
ESPHome — ESPHome
ESPHome Homepage - Reimagining DIY Home Automation. ESPHome is a framework that tries to provide the best possible use experience for using IoT microcontrollers for Home Automation. Just write a simple YAML configuration file and get your own customized firmwa…
Pendulum Types
General Performance: Choosing Between GetValueOrDefault() and Coalesce Operator for Nullable Integers
In dealing with nullable integers and the need for default values, two common approaches are the coalesce operator (??) and GetValueOrDefault(). Alternatively, utilizing HasValue with the condition…
GitHub - apple/corenet: CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks
CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks - apple/corenet
Mastering SOLID Principles in C#: A Practical Guide
This blog post explores the SOLID principles of object-oriented design and how to implement them in C#.
WIP is waste
A manifesto on work, waste, cost and value.
Exploring the AskVS command in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio - Visual Studio Blog
Maximize your productivity in Visual Studio with the AskVS command from GitHub Copilot. Discover how this feature can enhance your coding projects.
Fix Unable To Resolve DbContextOptions For EF Core
Create and apply EF Core migrations from a .NET Class library
Async APIs - don't confuse your events, commands and state
This blog is about the different types of message you can put on systems like Rabbit MQ and Kafka. It discusses the differences between commands, events, state and gives a few tips around how to structure your messages.
Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Authentication
Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging * Empty Proxy * Shared Library * Our First Controller * Migrating Initial Business Logic * Our First Views * Session State * Hangfire * Authentication Of all the topics in .NET migration, authentication, l…
C isn’t a Hangover; Rust isn’t a Hangover Cure
A few weeks ago, I got a bit miffed reading yet another article that was too dismissive about memory safety, basically being mostly…