1. Introduction The 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) concluded “It is very likely that well-mixed GHGs [greenhouse gases] were the main driver of tr…
Data, training procedures and compute are the secrets of big labs and available only to the GPU rich.
What does an agent truly mean, and how looking at agents from ABMs can help us better construct AI orchestrated workflows.
Layers of Optimization
GPU-friendly Stroke Expansion
Programming languages are too slow! I’m not talking about execution speed—I’m talking about evolution speed. Programmers are always building new libraries and embedded DSLs, but the host programming language—particularly its type system—doesn’t understand the …
How the Winchester Mystery house shows us what we risk if we conflate agile with constant bottom-up iteration and don't do any information architecture.
Fri July 26, 2024
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash I’ve been selling access to high resolution shadow maps on shademap.app for the past few months. This is known as a digital good and is subject to tax in various jurisdictions. I use Stripe as my payment... | Ted Piotrowski |…
I'm sitting on a barely delayed1 train on my way back from PyCon '24 in Berlin. This was the second time I attended an industry/programming conference, after attending JupyterCon last year. This year I had to convince my manager to get the greenlight to go, so…
At Quesma we help customers to innovate faster by re-shaping the way applications are built and connected to their DBs. Quesma database gateway enables development teams to modernise and evolve application architecture.
Herein you'll find all the ideas I could find (and think of) for what to do with your site. Features to add, pages to create, posts to write... Hope you find it useful!
There are a bunch of posts on the internet about using git worktree command. As far as I can tell, most of them are primarily about using worktrees as a replacement of, or a supplement to git branches. Instead of switching branches, you just change directories…
You can do the conversion in two steps using things you already have.
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
In 1970s Poland, Jacek Karpiński created a computer which could conduct a million operations per second and was small enough to fit into a briefcase. At a time when computers were not only slower but also comparable in size to cupboards, this was a remarkable …
Discover how to implement the Memento design pattern in C# to create user-friendly applications with undo and redo functionalities, enhancing user experience and boosting your app’s robustness.
In May of 2024, we opened up the 14th annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey to technologists worldwide—and the results are in! This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are…
A comparison, for educational purposes.
En Provence [Some thoughts about npm package provenance - and why I have not enabled it]
Over a six-month period, I conducted 50 interviews with top managers from many different countries. Get a subjective perspective on the recession and crisis in the IT industry. Discover diverse perspectives and the current situation in companies.
The website of Robin Rendle, a designer and writer from the UK.
On getting slightly better at self worth and awareness.
We (Prof. Wanmo Kang and Prof. Kyunghyun Cho) have been discussing over the past few years how we should teach linear algebra to students in this new era of data science and artificial intelligence. Over these discussions, which also led to some research colla…
Ask an evolutionary psychologist to explain the evolutionary psychology way of thinking to you. I am fairly confident they will give you the following example. Humans evolved in environments where…
Taking advantage of our typed REST API to build a platform around Val Town.
Mobile (Android and iOS) is getting harder and harder to develop for, and devs are leaving the platforms out of frustration and annoyance. With each new OS update a slew of new requirements have to be met otherwise you’ll face “restrictive action” against your…
Can I fetch data with Server Actions in Next.js? There are different ways to fetch data. Normally Server Actions are used to mutate data, but ...
Why you should have a personal website and blog as a solo game developer.
It's not that infrequent that I hear people talking about someone's flaws and what this person can do better. And, when I ask, nobody seems to have told anything to this person.
I got some fancy new speakers last week. They’re powered speakers and they have streaming service integrations built in, unlike the 35-year-old passive speakers I’m upgrading from. Overall they’re great! But they’re so loud that it’s difficult to make small vo…
Career-focused regrets post-PhD.
There’s this collection of tales about people who use static site generators. The story goes something like this: someone decides they want to be a blogger. So they start researching static site generators, they go down the list, ask some friends, start compar…
Here are a bunch of things (good) feature-team engineers do on every that infrastructure engineers should really start doing: