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Twenty questions is a weird game
Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a number from 1 to 100. You guess, and I tell you whether my number is higher or lower.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
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What was wrong with SML?
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Some thoughts on machine learning with small data
I feel techniques for making machine learning work with small data are not talked about enough. This makes sense because many ML applications are only possible by collecting a huge amount of data. …
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Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2
The yearly benchmarking Ruby post
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Growing food in hard clay
Improve even the worst soils and close your dependency loops.
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An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS)
macOS has a wonderful input mechanism where you press and hold a key on your keyboard to display the accent menu. It's easy to internalize: *long pres...
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About adding a static route to my DOCSIS modem
You may think this is an easy task but let’s find out. One would expect such functionality in a web interface …
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More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web (2021)
When I started thinking about writing a post about web font loading my intention was to propose relatively sophisticated ideas that I've...
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Julia Macros for Beginners
Macros are a powerful and interesting feature of the Julia programming language, but they can also be confusing. Users coming from Python, Matlab or R have not come in contact with similar constructs before, and they require a different way of thinking about code. This article is supposed to be a simple introduction…
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Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Software engineering is cursed with uncertainty. When we’re solving big new problems with software, if the exact problem has been solved before, we could just reuse the solution that already exists. Frequently though, the exact problem (or combination of problems) hasn’t been solved before, and we need to come up with…
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Mapping the unknown – Steps to map any industry
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step Lǎozi 老子 I just had lunch with Shenwei, one of my ex-students who had just taken a job in a mid-sized consulting firm. After a bit of catch…
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The End of Localhost
All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients
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Quest for my perfect watch
I love my Casio Protrek watch, I won’t leave the house without it. I’ve owned it for years, as well as some earlier Protrek models. Those earlier models didn’t break — these watches are basically indestructible — I just liked them so much I went and bought the new revisions!
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Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM?
Remember Apple’s failed attempt to detect CSAM in images? Would that have been similar to the way that Visual Look Up works? Is this the thin end of the wedge?
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Revisiting the principles of data-oriented programming
Principles of Data-Oriented Programming. Benefits and costs of Data-Oriented Programming. DOP vs OOP. DOP vs FP.
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The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin
Discover the hidden story of the first genesis block of Bitcoin
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The burden of an Open Source maintainer
Or: Why can't you just merge my ten-line PR already? I maintain over 200 open source projects. Apparently (this is news to me) I am ranked in the top 200 GitHub users by followers, and there are 18,000 forks and 42,000 stars across my repos. On an average day, I see between 50-100 emails across my repositories for…
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Don't compare yourself to other entrepreneurs
Everyone says don't compare yourself to other people. It can be easier said than done. I'm going to run through how I avoid comparing myself
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Abuse prevention is tradecraft
It’s sunday evening; there’s a lot to be said for being a stay-at-home-dad, and honestly I actually like having stuff like meal-prep and laundry to do, after 35+ years of “All Uni…
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Push-based outbox pattern with Postgres logical replication
There are only a few patterns that I’m comfortable saying: “You should use it always if you want to build mature system”. One of them is the Outbox Pattern. Why? Because…
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Where is every IP Address?
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems
Every so often a news article will make the rounds of the internet – or, for that matter, a paper will be published in an academic journal – presenting a new ‘decipherment’ …
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Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018)
We introduce pico.js , a face-detection library written in JavaScript, and show how it works. Although similar projects already exist, our goal is to provide a smaller and computationally more efficient alternative.
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New Clojure Project Quickstart
Clojure beginners sometimes struggle with setting up a new Clojure deps.edn project compared to setting up a lein project. This is one of the reasons I've built neil . But not only for beginners, I've been using neil myself a ton too, to add common features to existing deps.edn projects. You may think that neil is a…