Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosop…
Love, Math & Witchcraft: How Roasting Psychoanalysis Comes Back to Bite Richard Feynman - Slow thoughts
The further we zoom in on Mother Nature, the clearer it becomes that, at its most fundamental level, science resembles ‘witch-doctoring’ more than anything else.
3manuek - [Earthly feature]: Disabling Earthly internal labels
Stop calling the robots “smart”
There is a 1895 French short film called L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station in English) where a stationary camera was set up on a tripod and filmed a train, well, coming into the station. The story goes that
Generating database migrations with acyclic graphs
Principles of Effective Research – Michael Nielsen
Note: The entire essay is here in postscript format.
Taking PyTorch for Granted | wh
A while back I challenged myself to implement micrograd in Rust using only the standard library. Along the way, I thought that it would be a fun to attempt to implement a fully functioning Tensor library on top of micrograd. I thought that my familarity with P…
17 vulnerabilities in Sharp Multi-Function Printers
Multifunction printers offer more than just print. These devices integrate the power of a printer, photocopier and scanner into one single device.
Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions: .NET/C# Edition – Daniel Lemire's blog
Recently, the two major Web engines (WebKit and Chromium) adopted fast SIMD routines to scan HTML content. The key insight is to use vectorized classification (Langdale and Lemire, 2019): you load blocks of characters and identify the characters you seek using…
Don't Impl, Do Imp | Ali Khaleqi Yekta
A micro-optimization to an extremely repetitive naming suffix.
Kafka versus Nabokov
Uplifting a lobste.rs comment to a stand-alone post.
Synchronous Core, Asynchronous Shell
Weak Opinions, Strongly Held
Game 6: Put the DVD logo in the Corner
A blog about making a game to achieve my childhood dream (of guiding the DVD screensaver logo into the corner of the screen)
I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize
It has been three days. The room is cold and dark, but your screens are blinding. You feel disoriented as you come in and out of dissociative episodes. Now and again, you laugh, to no accompaniment. Why are you here? Was this your fault?
GitHub - wader/jqjq: jq implementation of jq
jq implementation of jq. Contribute to wader/jqjq development by creating an account on GitHub.
How do I produce a Windows Runtime asynchronous activity from C++/WinRT? - The Old New Thing
Somebody that deals with them natively.
Batteries: how cheap can they get?
How dirt cheap batteries will completely transform our electricity grid, paving the way for solar and wind and replacing grid reinforcements with grid buffers.
Against Innovation Tokens
The “innovation token” model for selecting technologies is bad, and here’s why.
From Fear to Triumph: My 30-Year Journey in Public Speaking
This content chronicles my 30-year journey in public speaking, from an unexpected start to embracing challenges and speaking at major conferences. Overcoming fears, I found career success and enric…
GitHub - andmarti1424/sc-im: sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal - andmarti1424/sc-im
Visual Studio AI Toolkit : Building Phi-3 GenAI Applications
Port Forwarding, a valuable feature within the AI Toolkit, serves as a crucial gateway for seamless communication with the GenAI model. Whether it's..
.NET Aspire Developers Day is coming up!
If you are part of the .NET community, you certainly have heard about .NET Aspire. It is a new framework/tool/set of patterns from Microsoft...
Navigating Corporate Giants - CoRecursive Podcast
What if you had to fight against your company's culture to bring a revolutionary tool to life? Meet Jeffrey Snover, the Microsoft architect behind PowerShell, a command tool that transformed Windows system administration. Initially met with skepticism, Snover'…
WebAssembly vs JavaScript: A Comparison — SitePoint
We compare WebAssembly and JavaScript, examining their performance, portability, ease of use, security, and community support.
Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o & LangChain
By structuring the comments on Hacker News using a predefined response_scheme for the LLM, I’ve tried to get a feeling for current job market and trends.