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Leaving Haskell behind
For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Open source LLM with 32k Context Length
Following up on the work from our previous blog post, we are releasing today an arXiv paper titled “Giraffe: Adventures in Expanding Context Lengths in LLMs”. Giraffe is a new family of models that are...
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Domain Repetition
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
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Print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function
Here is a Go function, if_max(). It finds the max value of an array of integers. Simple enough:
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So Long, Twitter and Reddit
It's been over three years since my last blog post. I think that the website code started to feel like it had bitrotted, and so making new blog posts became onerous. But I've taken the time to redo this website using Zig , so it's quite easy to add blog posts now, and plus I added dark mode .
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Bun v0.8
Bun gets debugger support, fetch streaming, and `bun update`. ReadStream and WriteStream from `node:tty` are implemented, including raw mode on `process.stdin`. SvelteKit now works in Bun. Plus bug fixes and stability improvements.
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The median return of 2022's SPAC mergers: -82%
Only 6 of the 94 SPACs have a positive return.
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Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
NVIDIA today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 30, 2023, of $13.51 billion, up 101% from a year ago and up 88% from the previous quarter.
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An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)
Oh you like SSH? Name every flag.
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HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies
OCV starts companies around the most promising open source projects.
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Common mistakes in salary negotiation
We've helped hundreds of people negotiate an average of $50k more. These are the two mistakes we can't undo.
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Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64
Windows XP I have a lot of fond memories of Windows XP and after feeling nostalgic, I was happy to find out that it’s relatively easy to take it for a spin on an ARM64 Mac using QEMU. I decided to install XP and an assortment of classic software one final time, taking screenshots of the whole process. This included…
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My favorite prime number generator
Many years ago I've re-posted a Stack Overflow answer with Python code for a terse prime sieve function that generates a potentially infinite sequence of prime numbers ("potentially" because it will run out of memory eventually). Since then, I've used this code many times - mostly because it's short and clear. In this…
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If is Evil when used in location context (2015)
Learn how to deliver, manage, and protect your applications using F5 NGINX products.
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AI predicts certain esophageal and stomach cancers three years before diagnosis
AI can predict certain forms of esophageal and stomach cancer Michigan Medicine study says.
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Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger
Engineers in Australia have found a way of making stronger concrete with roasted used-coffee grounds, to give the drink-additive a “double shot” at life.
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Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020)
I recently pondered how I'd answer [Peter Thiel's](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1478492-what-important-truth-do-very-few-people-agree-with-you) interview question if my answer had to relate to software:
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No one wants simplicity
We think we do, but in fact every web developer will happily sacrifice simplicity to the first shiny thing promising them relief from the mildest of ailments.
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On keeping sketchbooks
Matt Kirkland is a designer. He probably reads too much.
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GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
Developers can now bring their own data to customize GPT-3.5 Turbo for their use cases.
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Against Automaticity
An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…
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Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar
... they pay, they leave, they drink, they order.
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Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
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Broken Ownership
In the ownership trio, we discussed 3 elements: Knowledge, Mandate and Responsibility. This article digs into various broken ownership scenarios where 1-2 of those elements are missing, what are the common symptoms and how to fix them.
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Structured logging with slog
The Go 1.21 standard library includes a new structured logging package, log/slog.
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