19 May 2024

25 links · Sunday

Personal life is a playground for solving optimization problems

It is uncommon to discuss optimization in terms of our daily lives; instead, it is typically reserved for contexts involving large-scale operations, supply chains, technology, or business procedures.

Why can’t I focus?

Being able to focus, to do deep, meaningful work is a key skill for engineering leaders. Yet, oftentimes it seems hard to maintain a sustained high concentration level. I thought about my experiences when I struggled with this, and listed a few reasons I might…

The WAF Swiss-Knife – Pomba Labs

This blogpost showcases some not-so-commonly-advertised benefits and features that modern WAFs have, and how they can be used in an average company to gain benefits ranging from technical to political. It also provides some tips and tricks that I would have li…

Known Purpose and Trusted Potential.

The ethics of an interface which simulates 100% confidence on a product which is anything less than 100% accurate.

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

Conventionally, different AI systems represent the world in different ways. A vision system might represent shapes and colors, a language model might focus on syntax and semantics. However, in recent years, the architectures and objectives for mode…

What’s Up with Mastodon and “Referer” Headers?

One thing that’s helped me keep up with blogging this month is seeing my web analytics numbers go up. I maybe check my analytics too often, but at least it’s a good motivator to be productive.

Measuring energy usage of a function in C

I recently needed a way to measure how much energy a piece of code consumes. This is easy to do in Linux using the perf utility assuming the underlying kernel has been built with appropriate flags. This looks something like this

Raspberry Pi 5 Overclocking

Jeff came up against a 1V limit in his video " Overclocking Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.14 GHz on Pi Day " after firmware was released to remove the 3Ghz limit.

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"

The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech co…

Floor796

A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups