My Journey as a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Join this session to hear Nicklas's story as a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador and discover how it helped him get involved in the tech community and to build a network in the IT world. Learn about his experiences with writing blogs, giving talks, and h...
.NET Interview Insights: Tips from a Hiring Manager Join us for an engaging interview with Jeff, an experienced .NET hiring manager, as he shares his expert advice for aspiring .NET software engineers. In this session, Jeff will discuss the key skills he looks for in candidates, the types of questions he t...
How I used .NET 9 and AI to charge my electric car Can you use .NET 9 to charge your electric car using solar power? Absolutely! In this session, Johnny will show you how to leverage your development skills and .NET 9 to combine data from external vendors by using their API's and be smart with that data t...
A common urban intersection in the Netherlands Can urban intersections be designed in such a way that motor traffic, cycling and walking flow smoothly and that the potential conflicts of these very different types of traffic crossing each other…
Getting Started with Docker for .NET Web Apps I want to show you how to get started with Docker for .NET Web Apps. I will create a Blazor Server web application and add Docker support directly from Visual Studio. I will also show you how to achieve the same using the command-line interface. In the ...
Some surprising code execution sources in bash I ran across two surprising sources of code execution in bash (and probably other shells) recently.
WordPress Is A DUMPSTER FIRE - Build A Blog In Blazor! I am absolutely sick and tired of using WordPress. But to be fair, WordPress has given me a platform to build my content on -- even as far back as 2013 when I first started. But we're breaking up. We're through. It's time to get everything moved over t...
Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is | Quanta Magazine The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.
How to create your Own AI Bot on WhatsApp Using the ABP Framework | ABP.IO This article demonstrates how to build a WhatsApp bot that uses ChatGPT’s conversational AI by integrating an ABP.IO application template with Twilio ...
Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds * TorrentFreak A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on people's motivations to use Z-Library.
Solene'% : Why I stopped using OpenBSD In this blog post, I share my experience and why I stopped using OpenBSD
75 Cents per Month by @ttunguz What it cost to have an assistant with you like in the movie Her? The cost of using AI has dropped precipitously, an order of magnitude every year. If the average American picks up their phone 144 times per day & engages with an assistant, each time for f...
Singularity missed Every now and then in the discussions of AI/AGI and what not comes the central figure of that entire intellectual movement - Ray Kurzweil. And with him inevitably comes a form of an exponential chart
Effort-Dumping: Why Nobody Likes You “Can You Help Me?” Is the Wrong Question. Stop the Habit That’s Holding You Back.
QK Norm and the Curious Case of Logit Drift Multimodality has led to some tweaks to the standard Transformer recipe. In this post we will cover QK Normalization (QKNorm), where we apply normalization to the query and key vectors in the attention mechanism. This has become an important ...
Your habits and routines make you Discover how your daily habits and routines shape your identity, success, and overall life outcomes.
Packing group membership data into an integer - Emir's blog Say you have a large number of items, each of which could belong to multiple groups, and you’d like to assign to each item an integer which is able to encode its group memberships. The number of items could be vast, but say the number of groups is fairly ...
Bypassing app lock in Ente Auth A couple of months ago I discovered three issues that allow one to bypass app lock in Ente Auth. The issues I found aren't technically interesting and don't really deserve a blog post, but since Ente appears to be hesitant to notify their users about them...
Django: Introducing Djade, a template formatter - Adam Johnson Happy DjangoCon US 2024 to you. Whilst I am not there, I have adopted the spirit of the season and got to work hacking together a new tool.
Power to the power users How the creative uses of data structures by power users are transforming and inspiring new features in my product
I Cloned My Own Voice to Waste Telemarketer's Time I built a convincing AI with a clone of my own voice and extensive training in how to seem VERY interested in whatever is being sold, but to never commit!