14 May 2024

42 links · Tuesday

VMware Fusion Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use

VMware Desktop Hypervisor products Fusion and Workstation are used by millions of people every day to run virtual machines on their Windows, Linux and Mac computers. They give users the ability to quickly and easily build “local virtual” environments to instal…

Records - Slow thoughts

Science, engineering and everything in between.

A primer on why computational predictive toxicology is hard

Introduction Some background The hard stuff The relevance of toxicity datasets to the clinical problem Methodological problems in toxicity datasets Intraspecies toxicity variability Toxicity synergism Conclusions Introduction There are now (claimed) foundation…

How can logging impact a Golang backend?

This article is the answer to a small question I have always asked myself developing a backend. How much logging impact the performance? Is there a good reason why we keep the logging level to ERROR in production?

Disable your browser history to write better internal docs

Most of us work in companies with something approximating a shared online internal wiki, be it Confluence or MediaWiki or even a searchable, static website custom built for the task. A common problem with these sites is making what you write discoverable to ot…

Seeing like a CEO

drafts @ interfluidity

Datasets - How Neural Machine Translation Works

I’m currently working on training client-side translation models for Firefox. These models are small distilled models that can be reasonably downloaded by our users, and run directly on their machines

building a plugin system for the web

The Figma Plugin System Figma is a design tool that has become the industry standard, similar to how Photoshop became the defacto for photo editing. When everyone uses one tool, it only follows that there will be functionality that different groups of people n…

RSS blogrolls are a federated social network

RSS and other web feeds are a great way to keep track of articles published by your favorite blogs. But feed discovery remains challenging. Some recent work in this space opens up new opportunities.

Veo

Veo is our most capable video generation model to date. It generates high-quality, 1080p resolution videos that can go beyond a minute, in a wide range of cinematic and visual styles.

Data Structures — Binary Tree

A Binary Tree is a hierarchical data structure consisting of nodes, where each node can have up to two children, commonly known as the…

References are like jumps

In a high-level language, the programmer is deprived of the dangerous power to update his own program while it is running. Even more valuable, he has the power to split his machine into a number of separate variables, arrays, files, etc.; when he wishes to upd…