One of my papers got declined today by the journal I submitted it to, with a polite letter saying that while they found the paper interesting, it was not a good fit for the journal. In truth, I largely agreed with their conclusions, and the paper is now submi…
An explorating into github repo analsys using chatgpt (issues, discussions sentiment etc) - davidfowl/RepoAnalysis
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
The Books I Enjoyed Most in 2024
In the last two posts I introduced the AI Dev Gallery that Microsoft has been working on, and then demonstrated how code exported from the AI Dev Gallery can be added to an Uno Platform application. Unfortunately, whilst the code compiles on all the target pla…
Prove you're human by playing DOOM
As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, many existing benchmarks designed to evaluate their reasoning capabilities are becoming saturated. Therefore, we present the Putnam-AXIOM...
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Generate any location from the real world in Minecraft Java Edition with a high level of detail. - louis-e/arnis
Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Problem statement 1.2 Recommended reading 1.3 Binary search and Eytzinger layout 1.4 Hugepages 1.5 A note on benchmarking 1.6 Cache lines 1.7 S-trees and B-trees 2 Optimizing find 2.1 Linear 2.2 Auto-vectorization 2.3 Trail…
Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended
A port of librw and re3 to the Dreamcast https://dca3.net
I really like to use Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and htmx for a productive web application stack. However, most of my day-to-day work involves writing REST API backends (Well, JSON Data APIs really) for Angular or React frontends. During that work, I sometimes can…
Rethinking the balance between coding passion, life, and maintaining healthy boundaries.
On 11st of December 2024, Masahiko Sawada committed patch:
Why backprop was resisted for 20 years: assumption of discretely spiking neurons, goal of synthesizing Boolean logic, fear of local optima, and bad luck. Werbos has the best claim for invention.
One major attraction of Python. A recent realization.
On December 31st, I cleaned up my Spotify instead of tackling my usual to-do list. In this post, I share how decluttering my music collection brought unexpected satisfaction.
It’s that time of the year again, it’s time to look back and reflect on my professional journey in 2024.
don't let the headlines get you!
Building an Emacs Utopia with hot glue, duct tape and Nix
2024 was an amazing year for the Rails community and I’d like to share a summary of what changed in the framework. As a TLDR, there were more than 4000 commits from 562 contributors and 55 releases, including Rails 8!
I used to think that feeding ducks was an act of kindness. It certainly felt like it—just pure, selfless giving with nothing expected in return, except, of course, that warm and fuzzy feeling of having done something good. Parents bringing their kids along for…
Cursor - The AI Editor A little background, For those who are not aware Cursor is an AI-first fork of the very popular Visual Studio Code editor. More info here. I guess I am late to the party, but I never really gave any of these AI IDEs a shot…until now.
Blog Recorder's first 6 months: From launch to $250 MRR with 17 paying customers, new AI personalization features, marketing experiments at tech conferences, and ambitious growth plans for reaching $1000 MRR in 2025.
This post is inspired by Neil Brown. Being mostly a pessimistic person, I often find myself worrying about the negative impact of technological developments in recent years. However, I’m still trying
Exploring a security bug in Ghostty that is eerily familiar.
Bringing signals to HTML.