10 August 2024

32 links · Saturday

Transformer Explainer

Transformer is a neural network architecture that has fundamentally changed the approach to Artificial Intelligence. Transformer was first introduced in the seminal paper "Attention is All You Need" in 2017 and has since become the go-to architecture …

System Design for Entity Resolution

Entity Resolution (also known as Record Linkage, Data Fusion, Deduplication etc) is the process of identifying the same real-world entities (person, company, product etc) from two or more different datasets and combining them into a unique “golden record”. Thi…

Hybrid Teams are the Worst

The dynamics of a hybrid team are the worst, compared to fully in-office or fully remote. Throw this article at whomever tries to defend RTO and hybrid setup to you.

A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g.

Let’s take a brief trip back to our school years and recall some lessons in mathematics and physics. Do you remember what the number π equals? And what is π squared? That’s a strange question too. Of course, it’s 9.87. And do you remember the value of the acce…

Approved Resolutions | Special Meeting of the ICANN Board

Whereas, on 1 March 2019, the Board took action on each of the 35 recommendations issued within the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team Final Report dated 8 September 2018, as specified within the scorecard titled "Final CCT Reco…

5 EF Core Features You Need To Know

EF Core is powerful, and knowing a few key features can save you lots of time and frustration. I've cherry-picked five essential features that you really need to know.

Hacking a VoIP Phone

In this project, I analyzed and reverse engineered the firmware, file formats and custom cryptography of a business IP phone. As it turns out, many of the phone’s software components are customized, which made this a very interesting an…

Laser Fault Injection for The Masses

In this post we are breaking down barriers by open-sourcing a laser fault injection rig that costs less than 500 € to build.

Maybe You're Just Not Smart

Test anxiety is more about low IQs than anxiety interfering with performance

Olympics

Yesterday, I was off sick from work. Among napping and shielding my eyes from light sensitivity, I’ve been snatching glimpses of the BBC Olympics coverage where I can.

How to build a handheld game console

All the information that I gathered building this handheld game console compiled in one place so anyone can build it.

Search query analysis minus the noise

Finding search queries to improve is harder than you think. Here’s one statistical procedure for deciding whether a query really has a problem – or if its ju...

Surya | Perceived Age

"To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel today what one felt yesterday is not to feel—it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and…

A feed for everything and everything in a feed

At the moment my site has 6 different feeds. 5 RSS feeds, an ICS feeds and JSON versions of the 5 RSS feeds. I was asked how they're put together and, well, it's a bit involved.