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You'll regret using natural keys
Beating another dead horse.
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Implementing the Goodfellow GANs paper
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), discovered by Ian Goodfellow in 2014, were an early method in the area of generative AI. I will focus on image generation as set out in the paper Generative Adversarial Nets 1 . This paper is the focal point of the post, I will guide you through the implementation of the paper…
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An Overview of the Starlark Language
Laurent Le Brun's blog
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Sphere Rendering: Flat Planets
I'm a Technical Artist with over a decade of professional experience in both AAA and independent projects.
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I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
Leetcode-style interviews do not reflect real-world software engineering problems.
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Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line
We can use the `createWebArchiveData` method on `WKWebView` to write a Swift script that creates Safari webarchive files.
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Python's many command-line utilities
Every command-line tool included with Python. These can be run with python -m module_name.
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Cirkoban: Sokoban meets cellular automata written in Scheme
Last week, we released a small puzzle game called Cirkoban . Cirkoban is the very first publicly accessible application developed by Spritely that features the Goblins distributed programming library running in web browsers. We bet big on Hoot , our Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler, a little over a year ago in order to…
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DuckDB 1.0.0
The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis).
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Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015)
Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terrifying)
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Monads are like burritos (2009)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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PyCon US 2024 Recap
Unlocking the Parallel Universe: Subinterpreters and Free-Threading in Python 3.13
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Lisp: Icing or Cake?
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached building games with Lisp. I think these…
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X is justifiably slow (2022)
I regularly hear or read statements like this: “X is slow but this is to be expected because it needs to do a lot of work”. It can be said about an application or a component in a larger system, and can refer to other resources that aren’t time. I often find these profoundly unhelpful as they depend much more on the…
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Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%
An exhaustive set of benchmarks on different ways to approach error handling in Golang. We demonstrate that common sentinel error idioms are slow your code down by 5x.
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What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
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I added some optimizations to my compiler that turns Lisp into JavaScript
Smaller programs that do less work.
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What We're Working on in Firefox
We recently shared a number of updates with our community of users, and now we want to share them here: At Mozilla, we work hard to make Firefox the best b
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Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Tes...
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PyPy has been working for me for several years now
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to ...
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Zig's new CLI progress bar explained
Sometimes, programming projects are too easy and boring. Sometimes, they're too hard, never ending or producing subpar results.
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Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code
Author: Eduardo Ochs eduardoochs@gmail.com https://anggtwu.net/ https://www.lua.org/gems/ https://www.lua.org/gems/selected.html Version: 2008feb17 Listings: http://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth5.lua http://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth5.out Preprint version: https://anggtwu.net/miniforth/miniforth-article.pdf
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Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
Indexing the entirety of English Wikipedia on a laptop has become a practical reality thanks to recent advances in the JVector library that will be part of the imminent 3.0 release.
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Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
An update on the latest advancements of Elixir, data, and Machine Learning.
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Qlock – A JavaScript Quine Clock
Displays the current time in a seven-segment style, embedded within its own JavaScript source code. (321 bytes)
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Three Laws of Software Complexity
I posit that most software engineers (particularly those working on infrastructural systems) are destined to wallow in unnecessary complexity due to three fundamental laws.