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Tutorial for Wykobi – A C++ Computational Geometry Library
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How to scale LLMs better with an alternative to transformers
Monarch Mixer: Revisiting BERT, Without Attention or MLPs
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GCC 4.9.0 released
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Lensm, a tool for viewing disassembly
I couldn’t find a great tool for viewing disassembly, so I wrote it myself over the weekend.
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Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
We set out to build the first AI tutor to teach math and reading to kids ages 4-9. For AI to actually teach a five-year-old, pedagogy must be baked into the engineering. A child can't wait for a slow reply, can't read a chat interface, and can't unhear anything a model gets wrong. We wanted to share some of the…
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Busting the 10x software engineer myth
Leaders often feel proud of their high performers. In reality, having “10x engineers“ in your software organization may be a sign of an organization that is set out to fail in the long run.
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Coding Isn't Programming
Join us for a captivating closing keynote with the legendary Leslie Lamport, Turing Award winner and pioneer in the field of distributed computing. We'll discuss computing history, open source and distributed systems.
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Hate Java? Maybe you should hate the industries stuck in the 50's.
Today's guest post comes from our friend, Jonathan Fisher over at TheCodeMechanic blog. He points out some rather interesting issues in the "Java fight"
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Go is portable, until it isn't
An exploration of Go's portability limits when integrating with system-specific C libraries like libsystemd and dealing with glibc vs. musl systems.
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Devin is now generally available
The work Devin has been doing and how your team can start using Devin today.
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Grappling with Go
In a previous blog post, I observed that one of the medium-termpossibilities we’re seriously considering for NTPsec is moving theentire codebase out of...
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How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018)
A technical walk-through of how we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades.
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Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet
To offer a seamless developer experience, we wanted to create a specialized programming language, called Motoko, that is designed to directly support the programming model of the Internet Computer, making it easier to efficiently build applications and take advantage of some of the more unusual features of this…
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Futures for C++11 at Facebook
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Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor
On hosting images without the price tag.
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How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS
The details of running a complex ticket ranking site for under a dollar a month on AWS
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I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
After the success of using agents to improve query performance through autoresearch , I wanted to try something more ambitious. I rewrote PostHog's…
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Static Typing for Ruby: Adopting Sorbet at Scale
A look at how Shopify adopted static typing in it's core Ruby monolith by treating type checking like a product.
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Clojure is a product design tool (2015)
Clojure makes me more efficient and extends my reach as a designer. And it protects me from complex design workflows...
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Structured outputs create false confidence
Constrained decoding seems like the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it often forces models to prioritize output conformance over output quality.
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A New Chapter for PyPy
PyPy winds down its membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy Conservancy and PyPy's great work together PyPy joined Conservancy ...
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The features of Python's help() function
Python's help() function accepts more than functions, modules, and objects. The help() function can lookup help for symbols, keywords, and topics!
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Rust Analyzer: Next few years
rust-analyzer is a new
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Introduction to GPUs with OpenGL
Nowadays, we have amazing engines like Unity and Unreal. But how does this work exactly? Learning 3D rendering or building your own engine is a daunting task. While there are some tutorials out there,
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Pathfinding
Hello! I've recently been working on the pathfinding for NPCs in my game, which is something I've been looking forward to for a while now since it's a nice chunky problem to solve. I thought I'd write...
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Zig 0.3.0 Released
Zig is an open-source programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and clarity . Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming. Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it even if they dislike it.