Links for the day (2024/12/20)

Using Git Maintenance in GitHub Actions: Optimize Your Repositories Automatically

Integrating the git maintenance command into your GitHub Actions workflow can help keep your...

Modern .NET NuGet Packaging with Scott Harden

RJJ Software's Software Development Service This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Podcasting Services, whether your company is looking to elevate its UK operations or reshape its US strategy, we can provide tailored...

Azure integrations overview - .NET Aspire

Overview of the Azure integrations available in the .NET Aspire.

Building a robust ball tracking system for sports with SAM 2

A comprehensive guide to implementing robust ball tracking in sports videos using SAM 2, with practical solutions for handling scene changes, false positives, and dynamic camera movements.

Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Problems in Your Head, Problems in My Head | Andrew Chen

Writing about computers and other beautiful and worthwhile things.

The Lies About Abstraction

Below is an excerpt from Street Coder , where Sedat Kapanoglu talks about benefits of layering in software.

Synthetic Data & The Growing AI Perception Divide

Synthetic data is helping LLMs scale the data wall, but it’s doing so while creating a growing perception gap between those who use LLMs for quantitative tasks and those who use it for anything else, generating significant confusion.

How types make hard problems easy

A deep dive into how I use types to the fullest

Your voting system doesn't work | Blog

where my words occasionally escape /dev/null

Linear, Static Models Are Not the Path to AGI | Andrew Hart

The AI tech giants are moving in the wrong direction

5 Years of Compiler Jobs — Matthew Gaudet

Turns out I missed the 5 year anniversary of my CompilerJobs page by a little more than a week.

Data versus Feeling - Running two marathons in 6 weeks

Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to find out the differences!

The Turing-Qualia Test for LLMs

Like many of us, I've been playing with LLM based chat agents (such as ChatGPT) to see where they excel and where they get tripped up.

Time series benchmarks are broken

Benchmark tasks are a cornerstone of ML research, and a large proportion new research in pretty much every subfield follows the following template:

How to have decoupled systems without setting your company on fire

Have you heard that having decoupled systems is paramount to dealing with complexity at the heart of software? Have you also seen companies waste piles of cash and lots of developer time trying to build decoupled systems? This article might be of your int...

Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning

Reward hacking occurs when a reinforcement learning (RL) agent exploits flaws or ambiguities in the reward function to achieve high rewards, without genuinely learning or completing the intended task. Reward hacking exists because RL environments are ofte...

Why Obsidian is All You Need - From Simple Notes to Complete Productivity

Discover why Obsidian isn't just another note-taking app, but a complete system for managing your knowledge, tasks, projects, and digital life.

Why HNSW is Not the Answer to Vector Databases

HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) has become the go-to algorithm for many vector databases. Its multi-layered graph structure and ability to efficiently navigate vector embeddings make it particularly appealing. However, despite its apparent ...

Pair and mob sessions

Pair and mob programming are not just about coding.

– Avoiding Lost Updates in Web Applications

Save your future self from sleepless nights and learn to prevent sneaky concurrency bugs

Why You Don’t Need a DI Framework: A Case for Manual Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection (DI) frameworks are so widely adopted that many developers assume they are the only option for managing dependencies in an application. However, this prevailing wisdom often goes unchallenged, leading to unnecessary complexity, opaque...

Open source for learning

How I learned Go

How to make consistent cold coffees?

I make 1-2 cups of cold coffee daily and sometimes for my SO and small inconsistencies have started driving us crazy. Some days it would be perfectly cold and creamy and other days a watery sludge. After months of trying various things and drinking a lot ...

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