John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz) Attached: 1 image The number pi has an evil twin! It's a number called ϖ with many properties similar to π. There are even mutant trig functions connected to this number, called sl and cl. So maybe while you were studying trig in high school, some...
Clean Input Validation With FluentValidation in .NET Want to master Clean Architecture? Go here: https://bit.ly/3PupkOJ Want to unlock Modular Monoliths? Go here: https://bit.ly/3SXlzSt Join a community of 1000+ .NET developers: https://www.patreon.com/milanjovanovic Ever get tired of writing messy validat...
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What Happened to the World's Largest Tube TV? Start your business today at https://shopify.com/shankmods The KX-45ED1, aka the PVM-4300, was rumored to be the largest CRT ever made. A mysterious picture of one has circled the internet for years. Join me as we uncover the mystery of this massive and ...
Engineering Memory About three years ago, I memorized the first one hundred digits of pi. I did it on a lark, after reading Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein. The book’s central claim is that nearly anyone can achieve seemingly super-human feats of memory with proper ...
A slow rail trip through Malaysia - Ethan's Page I take a ride on the very last overnight train in Malaysia.
Organizing +100,000 articles in a folder hierarchy automatically My attempt to organize in folders thousands of great articles sourced from Hacker News.
Numbers are Leaves Over Christmas I set out to teach myself axiomatic . Specifically, I wanted to teach myself Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of Choice or . Z...
Co-Adapting Human Interfaces and LMs When the world adapts to LMs, the boundary between agent and environment start to blur
Cancer Treatment on a Budget | Lorenzo Venneri These are low cost, first principles methods to help treat cancer. They are aimed at the poor and desperate, but some also serve as preventative measures for normal healthy people. I was inspired to put it together after hearing about a friend's dad (neur...
Announcing Nio Nio is an experimental async runtime for Rust. This project initially began as an experiment to explore alternative scheduling strategies.
Elasticsearch is Dead, Long Live Lexical Search - Milvus Blog By now, everyone knows that hybrid search has improved RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) search quality. While dense embedding search has shown impressive capabilities in capturing deep semantic relationships between queries and documents, it still has...
The True Cost of PMI: Why you should pay down your low-interest mortgage I got a guaranteed return of 10.66% by paying down my low-interest mortgage to eliminate PMI.
Why Nix Is the Perfect Package Manager for Your Steam Deck In this article I’d like to show how to get Nix working on your Steam Deck and explain why you might want to. Firstly, you need to install ...
Intercepting Websocket Messages To Analyze Geoguessr Party Games My friends and I play GeoGuessr every Wednesday. It’s a small yet awesome tradition of ours, a reason to get together on Discord every week. Being a naturally curious person, I had a lot of questions to ask. What is our top score? How often do we confuse ...
How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
Simplifying disassembly with LLVM tools Both compiler developers and security researchers have built disassemblers. They often prioritize different aspects. Compiler toolchains, benefiting from direct contributions from CPU vendors, tend to
entrepreneurship is darts: playing with just one shot Born with limited opportunities, I reflect on the "darts" analogy of risk and chance. From poverty in post-Soviet Russia to building a new life in Canada, this is my journey of resilience and growth.
Do the next most important thing You don’t need to do it all. Just pick the next most important thing and start.
I sell sweet potatoes on the internet I was homesick alone for Thanksgiving and always trying to think up ways to make more money. I decided to copy the Vidalia Onions guy by selling Mississippi Sweet Potatoes directly to consumers online. I read his blog post “I sell onions on the internet” ...
Structured Extraction with LLM I have been exploring the capabilities of structured generation with OpenAI models for a long time, starting from when function calling was introduced. I believe structured generation is a powerful use case for LLMs. The reason is that if we can extract i...
i sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS’24 – Kyunghyun Cho last week at NeurIPS’24, one extremely salient thing was the anxiety and frustration felt and expressed by late-year PhD students and postdocs who were confused by the job market that looks and feels so much different from what they expected perhaps when ...
Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work Thoughts on building and maintaining trust with very senior managers
NPM search is broken As an active user of npm and an author/maintainer of several libraries, I’ve recently encountered significant problems with npm’s new search experience. While I appreciate the effort the npm team has put into improving search, the current implementation h...
"Do you know who I am" calculator A weird thing happened when I joined Figma. I ended up getting a lot1 of followers on Twitter. Prior to my time there I had around 100 followers, and was mostly shitposting to empty air. I now have 6.9k followers (huge, I know - ...
The Future of Observability: Observability 3.0 | Hazel Weakly Observability, so hot right now. Over the years, we’ve seen observability go from an unknown concept to a ubiquitous phrase that everyone is desperate to stamp...