14 January 2025

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Release zfs-2.3.0 · openzfs/zfs

We are excited to announce the release of OpenZFS 2.3.0. Key Features in OpenZFS 2.3.0: RAIDZ Expansion (#15022): Add new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool, increasing storage capacity without dow...

B: Game Essence 3 (Category Compilation) #16~#23

In Category B: Game Essence, I define "game essence" as risk and reward, and explore how it impacts the push and pull at the heart of games. [Index] 0:00 Opening 0:11 B-16 Game Essence in Shooting Games 2:48 B-17 More Game Essence Means Less Broad Appeal 6:46…

Announcing Developer Academy

Fabian Gosebrink and I finally launch our new website: developer-academy.ch. A website meant for developers that want to level up their skills!

Why don’t we do more prescribed burning? An explainer. - Kevin Drum

Prescribed fires—or the lack of them—are on everybody's lip these days. Most people are just parroting talking points for political purposes, but perhaps you'd actually like to be a little smarter about it? Sure you would. It's a weekend and you have some spar…

Differentiable Programming from Scratch

Differentiable programming has become a hot research topic, and not only due to the popularity of machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX. Many fields apart from machine learning are finding differentiable programming to be a useful tool …

A startup is a religion

Everyone's searching for meaning. Startups can help you find it, until they can't.

Cosine Similarity: Not the Silver Bullet We Thought It Was | Shaped Blog

In the world of machine learning and data science, cosine similarity has long been a go-to metric for measuring the semantic similarity between high-dimensional objects. However, a new study by researchers at Netflix and Cornell University challenges our under…

You are your mask

You are not what you think you are. You are what others think you are.

Do Larger PRs Get Merged Faster?

An analysis of 24,000+ pull requests reveals surprising insights about PR size and review time. Learn how PR complexity affects merge speed and what it means for your development workflow.

On Prompt Engineering

I have a visceral reaction to people talking about "prompt engineering". This is an attempt to reflect on why this phrase elicits such a str...

Installing and Developing vLLM with Ease

The field of LLM inference is advancing at an unprecedented pace. With new models and features emerging weekly, the traditional software release pipeline often struggles to keep up. At vLLM, we aim to provide more than just a software package. We’re building a…

Chrome Web Store is a mess

The post details Google’s lax enforcement of their policies in Chrome Web Store, resulting in a flood of spam submissions, add-ons “legitimately” stealing users’ data and outright malicious extensions not being addressed. At this point Chrome Web Store is a ve…

I Built a Visa Requirement Change Tracker for Fun

Have you ever wondered how visa requirements between countries change over time? I certainly have. It all started when I was planning an international trip and needed to check if I needed a visa for the country I was visiting. A quick Google search gave me the…