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What is GPT-3? written in layman's terms
Daily, snackable writings to spur changes in thinking. Building a blueprint for a better brain by tinkering with the code.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Consider getting a “DIY” degree online instead of a traditional CS major
As universities are switching to 100% remote teaching in the coming semester, many undergraduate students should strongly consider getting a “DIY” CS degree: take the same courses you would at your own school, but on any one of the online Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms, like Coursera or edX. Advantages…
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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a…
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Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today announced it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft Corporation before the European Commission.
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Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it
A review of 3 automated systems in use by the Swiss police and judiciary reveals serious issues. Real-world effects are impossible to assess due to a lack of transparency.
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Design Docs at Google
One of the key elements of Google's software engineering culture is the use of design docs for defining software designs. These are...
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ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB
The ListenBrainz team has been working hard on moving our primary listen store from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB , and today at UTC 16:00 we’re going to make the switch.
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IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude
A few years ago I wrote [_The World in Which IPv6 was a Good Design_](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810). I'm still proud of that article, bu...
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Deep learning to translate between programming languages
TransCoder is the first self-supervised neural transcompiler system for migrating code between programming languages. It can translate code from Python to C++, for example, and it outperforms rule-based translation programs.
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Medium is not the home for your ideas
Torn between whether to write on Medium or post on your own blog? Here's a cautionary tale.
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It's Time to Start Writing (2019)
A blog by Alex Nixon on programming and software
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How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser
Many browsers today are gigantic resource hogs, which are basically VMs for various web applications. On the other hand, Links is a HTML browser. It is not able to do everything. It allows me to avoid most distractions and control the content-experience. The goal of this exercise is not to force anyone to use this…
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Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0
macOS 11.0 will identify itself differently according to the SDK used, and an environment variable does the same for scripts.
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Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable?
There is a lot of randomness in a game of Slay the Spire. From the cards and relics offered, to the potions dropped, to the map layouts and random encounters, very little remains the same between two playthroughs. This is part of the beauty of the game, forcing you to adapt and make the most out of the resources you…
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Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019)
Elo does not work when different skill levels must play against each other. Can we make a better system?
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Safely Reviving Shared Memory
At Mozilla, we want the web to be capable of running high-performance applications so that users and content authors can choose the safety, agency, and openness of the web platform. ...
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India, Jio, and the Four Internets
There are four Internets: China versus the U.S., and the E.U. and India. India’s potential new model rests on Jio.
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Svelte and TypeScript
Typernetically enhanced web apps
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Common mistakes writing React components with hooks
The most common mistakes I found while writing react components, why they are mistakes and how to avoid or fix them.
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Apple commits to be 100% carbon neutral for supply chain and products by 2030
Already carbon neutral for its operations, Apple is unveiling a roadmap to achieve zero carbon for its supply chain and products by 2030.
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Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD
Have you ever wondered which node consumes more resources? Managing a bespoke dashboard for your infrastructure. Learn how to create it.
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Invert, always, invert
man muss immer umkehren - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
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The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup
You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy.
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An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function
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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The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
This is a post I've been meaning to write for a while now: one anecdotally comparing programming languages in the Lisp family. I consider myself to be a Lisp hacker. Perhaps that much was obvious from the letter λ adorning my website's header, a reference to the λ-calculus which inspired John McCarthy to design the…
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Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
This post is part of my Programming for Advanced Beginners series. Subscribe now to receive specific, actionable ways to make your code cleaner, every other week, entirely free.
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