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Un garçon pas comme les autres (Bayes) - An unexpected detour into partially symbolic, sparsity-expoiting autodiff; or Lord won’t you buy me a Laplace approximation Exploiting linearity and sparisty to speed up JAX Hessians and slowly ruin my life.
Intercropping viable for optimizing vegetable production on Mars - 𝙎𝘾𝙄𝙀𝙉𝘾𝙀 Comparison between intercropping treatment from the three soils. A: Sand. B.... A group of crop systems analysts at Wageningen University and Research, in the Netherlands, has found evidence that intercropping on Mars could be a viable option for optimizi...
Parsing PNG images in Mojo So for the past while I’ve been trying to follow along with the development of Mojo, but so far I’ve mostly just followed along with the changelog and written some pretty trivial pieces of code. In my last post I said I wanted to try something a bit more ...
Solving Recurrence Relations Introduction A neat bit of “engineering mathematics” is solving recurrence relations. The solution method falls out of the notation itself, and harkens back to a time where formal sums …
Dancing on the Shoulders of Giants In today’s professional landscape, standing “on shoulders of giants” (OSOG) through education, training, and experience is commonplace. Fast-moving industries like semiconductors,…
Are Startup Stock Options Like ‘Lottery Tickets?’ A CEO and Former Employee Discuss. And My POV. The good stuff on the Internet really does occur in the comments! I shared a post by Ben Werdmuller where he details that a company he used to work for had a recent repricing/restructuring of their…
Choosing a travel pack is hard I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines losing your stuff. Outside of requiring a bit more planning, what’s not to love? Turns out this is a beloved product category with a passionate community b...
Why I prefer the iPad over a MacBook I had to bring my MacBook instead of my iPad during a recent trip. For the whole time, I missed my iPad. Here are the reasons why I prefer the iPad over a MacBook.
How to use PostGIS with Prisma Prisma doesn’t support PostGIS, but we can query spatial data using raw database access. This post explores PostGIS basics and the Prisma setup.
What is emoji? I read a blog post about the history of emojis. The article was full of details and descriptions. The author didn`t give a strict definition of what emojis are and suggested that everyone can have their own idea about them.
ChatGPT and the web ignorant The first time I used ChatGPT I was astounded. Here was something that felt like magic. Since then, a lot more information has been made available about LLMs in general. Us laymen have peeked inside the magician’s hat. We know more about their capabilitie...
Thread - the tech we can't use or teach - Dennis Schubert Random thoughts, articles and projects by a chronic overengineer.
Imposter Syndrome and YOU – Dev Leader Weekly 43 Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss imposter syndrome and how it affects you as a software engineer.
Team KeePassXC (@keepassxc@fosstodon.org) Debian Users - Be aware the maintainer of the KeePassXC package for Debian has unilaterally decided to remove ALL features from it. You will need to switch to `keepassxc-full` to maintain capabilities once this lands outside of testing/sid.
CME impact imminent, Two more earth-directed CMEs A quick update on the current solar activity and the expected geomagnetic conditions in the coming days.
Building Resilient Cloud Applications With .NET By designing your applications with resilience in mind, you can create robust and reliable systems, even when the going gets tough. In this newsletter, we'll explore the tools and techniques we have in .NET to build resilient systems.
GitHub - MHNightCat/superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager. Contribute to MHNightCat/superfile development by creating an account on GitHub.