Optimizing String Performance
These articles delve into the intricacies of string handling in programming, emphasizing the fundamental role strings play in representing text. It explores various aspects such as checking for emp…
Borgo Programming Language
How to Train Diffusion for Text from Scratch
This is part two of a series on Diffusion for Text with Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion (SEDD) models. Today we will be diving into the code for diffusion models for text, and see how they work from the inputs to the outputs to the intermediate representation…
Delving into “delve”
If scientific authors use ChatGPT in writing their papers, it is likely that common ChatGPT words will appear.
My Code Formatting Guidelines
Stirring the tabs vs spaces pot once again.
Walking Maps – Jeremy Maluf
Updated October 2023
Losing the imitation game
AI cannot develop software for you, but that's not going to stop people from trying to make it happen anyway. And that is going to turn all of the easy software development problems into hard problems.
Tech Error: Diversity Not Found
If everyone around me looks like, sounds like, and thinks like me I'm not learning or growing. Diversity is a critical requirement for growth!
Two Clock Problem Of Rewrites
Stashpad Blog - My favorite Insomnia features and shortcuts
In this article, I'll talk about my favorite Insomnia features and how I use them. - A few years ago, I switched from Postman to Insomnia. Postman had become bloated with buttons and features I didn't need. Insomnia felt lightweight in comparison. It had staye…
1/0 = 0
Have a tweet: img {border-style: groove;} I have no idea if Pony is making the right choice here, I don’t know Pony, and I don’t have any interest in learning Pony.1 But this tweet raised my hackles for two reasons: It’s pretty smug. I have very strong opini…
Reverse engineering BeReal
Reverse engineering has always intrigued me, offering the opportunity to unlock the potential of apps with private APIs that companies prefer to keep hidden. In this article, I’ll share my journey of reverse engineering the popular social media app BeReal.
How I would redesign Copilot Workspace
I tried the just announced Copilot Workspace.
A framework for creating value
A simple, minimal blog for those who love text.
On FastAPI - GreenAsh
28 Apr 2024
Optimizing for Accidental Robert Picardo
It’s always a good day when you run into Robert Picardo. I. A Curious Coincidence Our story begins on a lazy weekend sometime in August, 2023, in that timeless city, San Francisco. I was out …
How do Touch screens work? — Learn how Gadgets Work - One Gadget at a Time
Hey friends, Happy Wednesday! Last week, I met a friend from my primary school after 15 years in San Francisco. We played some music and went out for dinner. Let’s look at how touchscreen technology works this week. I aim to write my newsletter issues in a w…
Keeping dependencies up-to-date by Martijn Hols
The gist of keeping dependencies up-to-date. When to update, how to update, and what to update first.
Direct Preference Optimization Explained In-depth
Simpler preference-tuning without reinforcement learning
7 independent tech job boards (2024)
7 independent job boards and sites that you should know about. These rare finds that are in it for more than just the money.
Gaining depth perception | nicole@web
In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly full depth perception.
Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return
So, I’ve been called a bad CTO a few times, and people even told me they wouldn’t work for me even if I were the last CTO on earth. Quite a statement,
Ruby's Complex Branching Options
Ruby's Complex Branching Options
Trying to Understand the “TikTok Ban”
On April 24, President Biden signed H.R.815 into law. This bill includes the “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act”. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.
Verifying Slack Requests in Phoenix
Using signature verification to ensure the authenticity of requests from Slack's Events API
Stashpad Blog - My Experience with Techstars
Learn how Techstars helped our company with fundraising and community - In 2021 my co-founder and I participated in the Techstars Anywhere program. I absolutely loved the program and was surprised by which parts I found most valuable, especially in retrospect …
Lateral Thinking: examples of creative solutions
I like to think that problems are what's most worth obsessing on, and that solutions usually follow easily from a good understanding of a problem....
🇪🇺 Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc | Andreas Klinger
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
nil / Nil / NULL / NSNull
Understanding the concept of nothingness is as much a philosophical issue as it is a pragmatic one.
Ideas and Execution
Save the Web by Being Nice
A common complaint amongst the old guard bloggers is that the old web as we knew it is dying. This is false.The old web has actually been dead for many...
pyinfra
pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale
Awaiting a set of handles with a timeout, part 1: Starting with two - The Old New Thing
Let's see by seeing if we can do it with just two.
Reddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months later - Blåhaj Lemmy
For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950 [https://lemmy.world/post/14859950] (Thank you @Nelots@lemm.ee [https://lemm.ee/u/Nelots] )
Bio-digital jazz, man
2024 Apr 27
Handling The Indentation of a Treeview Component
Exploring different ways to handle the indentation of a treeview component.
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says
iPads must comply with the same DMA regulations as the iPhone.
Threlte
Threlte – Rapidly build interactive 3D apps for the web
Code It Any Way You Want: Optimizing Span Operations – Clear vs. Fill
This article compares two key search methods in dictionaries: using `Contains()` on the Keys collection and `ContainsKey()` method directly on the dictionary. It demonstrates examples for both appr…
Unlocking the Power of Out-GridView in PowerShell
Unlocking the Power of Out-GridView in PowerShell When it comes to PowerShell, every seasoned...
aux.computer
An alternative to the Nix ecosystem.
Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
Every SQL database engine works in roughly the same way: It first translates the input SQL text into a "prepared statement". Then it "executes" the prepared statement to generate a result.
The Decorator Pattern is sometimes helpful
I’ve been occasionally writing posts about old design patterns that are still occasionally useful despite the decades long backlash to the old “Gang of Four” book: The Lowly Strat…
Updating Documents in MongoDB - Simple Talk
In the previous articles this series, I demonstrated various ways to retrieve document data from a MongoDB database, using both MongoDB Shell and MongoDB
Ground Rules of Fairness at Work
Unfairness is such a demotivator that I left my first engineering job because of it.
Demystifying Azure Open AI for App developers
The purpose of this blog is to cover all the concepts related to Azure Open AI in an easy-to-understand concise format for anyone with no or limited ML..
TypeScript compiler trick
Last week I showed you how to use Pattern Matching and more specifically the Type Pattern in TypeScript. I used a set of commands: with a...
ASP.NET Core Hosting Module with Shadow Copy Not Starting: Separate your Shadow Copy Folders!
I recently ran into a major failure related to Shadow Copying for an ASP.NET Web app on IIS which was caused by corruption of the Shadow Copy directories. The app starts with the dreaded white ANCM Error page and event log entries that point at missing applica…
Service compatibility is determined based on policy
A reading of the fourth Don Box tenet, with some commentary.
.NET Aspire is the best way to experiment with Dapr during local development
Experiment Dapr using .NET Aspire for the best YAML-free local development experience. Focus on your services, not the infrastructure.
GPT-2?
Background https://chat.lmsys.org provides blind-tested user benchmarks for LLMs (and some MLLMs). One of the models recently available is GPT2-chatbot, which demonstrates capability greatly beyond any GPT-2 model. It is available to for chatting with in "Dire…