16 January 2025

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Open Source CMS with C# - Completing milestone 0.5

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How To Cache In C#: Caching For Beginners

Caching is one of the most important and one of the most complex things that we can explore in software development. Where the HECK should we start? Why not right here with this intro to basic caching options in C#! ---- 🔑 Membership & Subscriptions: - 📨 W…

A Personal Note From Our Founder – Hindenburg Research

As I’ve shared with family, friends and our team since late last year, I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research. The plan has been to wind up after we finished the pipeline of ideas we were working on. And as of the last Ponzi cases we just comp…

furialog

I think about music in years. 2024 was the first year in a long time that I didn't have anything to do with Spotify Wrapped, but that was never why I thought about music in years, and certainly never how. I like my music data to tell me stories about music not…

Spotify fix scrolling lag issue

TLDR; There is a horrible lag issue with spotify, spotify didn't fix it yet, so basically I profile the app, detect the bug slowing it down,...

TCL's bet on screens that look like paper

Since 2021, TCL has been investing in an intriguing screen technology called NXTPAPER: an LCD panel that attempts to simulate paper to be less harsh on human...

The Immutable Badge - A Thought Experiment

Imagine an immutable, hidden badge is attached to you. You cannot remove, transfer, or modify it. However, no one can see it without your knowledge and consent. This is a thought experiment about the ultimate biometrics identifier.

Real Semantic Versioning

Semantic version (SemVer) is possibly the most widely used software versioning scheme. We all know how SemVer works: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. The first number is for backward-incompatible changes, the middle number is for backward-compatible new features, and the la…

all kpis are derivatives of revenue or cost

Every metric, objective or goal should be driving revenue or reducing cost. If it isn’t, it’s not something a business, product or team should be pursuing.

Good enough design

A trap for SaaS founders. Opportunity for designers.

Beating OpenBLAS in FP32 Matrix Multiplication

In this tutorial we’ll step-by-step optimize multi-threaded FP32 matrix multiplication on CPU outperforming OpenBLAS on wide range of matrix sizes. The algorithm follows the BLIS design and is implemented in simple, scalable C code parallelized with OpenMP. Ta…

Cohesive Digests for Ints and Floats

On developing sdxtra I encountered a problem to calculate cohesive digests for numeric values, agnostic to their types. This post is a brief summary of the solution I came up with.

The Scaling Paradox — Toby Ord

AI capabilities have improved remarkably quickly, fuelled by the explosive scale-up of resources being used to train the leading models. But if you examine the scaling laws that inspired this rush, they actually show extremely poor returns to scale. What’s goi…

Running LLM evals right next to your code

One of the first things you learn when going down the path of building applications with LLMs is that you need evals. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could live in your existing test system, and be run and displayed in CI, just like your tests?

Effortless tests with cached stubs

Imagine you have just written a complex piece of code (maybe an agent?) that interacts with several APIs and possibly uses large language models (LLMs). Now, you want to write tests but calling the APIs or LLMs during tests would make them slow, non-determinis…

Breaking the Silence

Over the past many months, I have watched the stories circulating the internet about me with horror and dismay. I’ve stayed quiet until now,...

About LLMs and Energy- Marcos

When I was still studying electronics in college, I remember a project in microcontrollers class where the professor let us choose what we wanted to do. At that time, I was almost obsessed with neural networks and proposed to the professor that I would impleme…

ZADZMO code

This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLM's - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that finds it's way inside.