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Parallel tasks in Python: concurrent.futures
concurrent.futures is well suited to Embarrassingly Parallel tasks. You could write concurrent code with a simple for loop.
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π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
Our latest generalist policy, π0.5, extends π0 and enables open-world generalization. Our new model can control a mobile manipulator to clean up an entirely new kitchen or bedroom.
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Designing software for things that rot
Building an iOS fermentation tracker with HACCP-style decision trees for home charcuterie, salami curing, and fermented foods - food safety without internet strangers.
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Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang
The first Go challenge is over. So by now, I can take my Erlang solution and write about how you would go around solving the challenge in…
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How to implement search-by-color when all you have is a good coffee
Hey there! Last week I started working on a rewrite of Shefa Products which is a wholesale merchandising e-commerce for Argentina.
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Fun and dystopia with AI-based code generation using GPT-J-6B
At the least, AI-generated code is much more readable than the average human’s.
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Writing a Raytracer in Rust – Part 1
Hello! This is part one of a short series of posts on writing a simple raytracer in Rust. I’ve never written one of these before, so it should be a learning experience all around. So what is a raytracer anyway? The short version is it’s a computer program that traces the paths of simulated rays of light through a…
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Cross compilation just got better in Go 1.5
Cross compilation is one of Go’s headline features. I’ve written about it a few times , and others have taken this work and built better tooling around it.
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How to program a text adventure in C (2016)
This is not a C tutorial; there are plenty of those on the web. The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of programming in general, and preferrably the C programming language in particular. Maybe you just finished reading a tutorial, and you would like to learn some more by studying other people's source…
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Demystifying Debuggers
An introduction to a new post series covering debugger basics.
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Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape
About six months back, I wrote a post on how to use views in Postgres to encapsulate tables and create a versioned interface to a database. At the end of the…
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Separate Your Billing from Entitlements
Building your own entitlement service is key for supporting a modern, flexible SaaS product. Whenever I read about billing systems, there’s a lot of talk about the billing aspects but not so much around entitlements. In the spirit of sharing, and since I haven’t found any good articles about it, I decided to tell you…
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Play on Heroku
Developers with experience in both Java and Ruby web development often ask the question: Why is web app development so complicated in Java, and so much...
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Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today
Most web developers I talk to these days love writing JavaScript with all the newest language features—async/await, classes, arrow functions, etc. However, despite the fact that all modern browsers can run ES2015+ code and natively support the features I just mentioned, most developers still transpile their code to…
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Algorithms tutorial series for beginners
As a developer, you have the power to change the world! You can write programs that enable new technologies. For instance, develop software to find an earlier diagnosis of diseases. But that’s not the only way. You might do it indirectly by creating projects that make people more productive and help them free up time…
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Implementing React from Scratch
A detailed explanation of the architecture I used to rebuild react
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How Julia ODE Solve Compile Time Was Reduced from 30 Seconds to 0.1
Open Source Software for Scientific Machine Learning
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Profiling Python in Production
This post is about the ways we approached instrumentation, and some tools you can use to optimize your own apps (including code). Learn how we reduced CPU usage by 80% through Python profiling.
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OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection
What is OpenCV-Python? OpenCV is an open source computer vision and machine learning library. It has 2500+ optimized algorithms—a comprehensive set of both classic and state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning algorithms. It has many interfaces, including Python, Java, C++,… Continue reading OpenCV-Python…
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From macOS to Windows and WSL
Writings about computing, agents, and the Internet.
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Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform running Kubernetes and Mesos
Each and every week, Uber’s 4,500 stateless microservices are deployed more than 100,000 times by 4,000 engineers and many autonomous systems. These services are developed, deployed, and operated by hundreds of individual teams working independently across the globe. The services vary in size, shape, and…