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My Favorite Deep Learning Papers of 2017
Here are five deep learning papers I felt rose above the rest in 2017.
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A New Back End for Cranelift
This post will describe my recent work on Cranelift as part of my day job at Mozilla. In this post, I will set some context and describe the instruction selection problem. In particular, I’ll talk about a revamp to the instruction selector and backend framework in general that we’ve been working on.
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How we centralized and structured error handling in Golang
Handling errors in Go is simple and flexible – yet no structure! It’s supposed to be simple, right? Just return an error , wrapped with a message, and move on. Well, that simplicity quickly turns into chaotic as our codebase grows with more packages, more developers, and more “quick fixes” that stay there forever…
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Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think
TL;DR: All the evidence shows that programming requires a high level of aptitude that only a small percentage of the population possess. The...
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Why I like Common Lisp
In a recent email exchange discussion, Charlotte Herzeel gave a summary of Common Lisp that I believe is worth repeating publicly. With her ...
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$ sudo rm -rf / === NPM install
🔎I authored this blog post whilst I was an employee of Gitpod for Gitpod. I no longer work at Gitpod. In what seems like a long time ago, in part because it is, I learned the catastrophic capabilities of this command the hard way, and I'm sure folks my
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Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
Infrastructure as code, but actually
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My experiences at a woman's programming workshop
I heard about a Python tutorial that was going on this weekend, and with well over a decade of Python experience, I decided to volunteer to help students. I hadn't realized it was a women's workshop put on by PyLadies , but I'm glad I went because I came out of the event with a number of observations that extend out…
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The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++”
Initial cover design. Nobody asked me about the writing of Effective Modern C++ (EMC++), but I wanted to talk about it a little, so ...
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Frustrations with React Hooks
React Hooks can be frustrating despite their popularity and widespread use. Learn about some of the drawbacks to using React Hooks.
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What the hell is a target triple?
Cross-compiling is taking a computer program and compiling it for a machine that isn’t the one hosting the compilation. Although historically compilers would only compile for the host machine, this is considered an anachronism: all serious native compilers are now cross-compilers.
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Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
Nothing is ever finished or perfect, and HTTP is no exception. HTTP QUERY is a new HTTP method, for safe requests that include a request body. It's still...
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A New ASN.1 API for Python
We’re working on integrating an ASN.1 API into PyCA Cryptography, built on top of the same Rust ASN.1 implementation already used by Cryptography’s X.509 APIs.
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Go Developer Survey 2019 Results
An analysis of the results from the 2019 Go Developer Survey.
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Project Loom and Structured Concurrency
Project Loom is one of the major “projects” in which Java is moved forward, alongside the perhaps better known projects Amber and Valhalla. It will bring “virtual” threads with low resource footprint and low cost of blocking to the Java plaform. Here is my annual advent season update, this time with a focus on…
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What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
The question on the lips of everyone in the Linux community is, "What if Linus Torvalds (affectionately known to the trade press as 'Linux Torvalds') gets hit by a bus?" Reams of virtual paper have been wasted on idle speculation about the results of what is a fairly simple experiment. We decided it was high time…
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Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms
This is an essay about what it means to teach a kid to program, using Seymor Paperts groundbreaking book Mindstorms as a reference.
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Why you should never use hash functions for message authentication
The general thrust of this post is: use a MAC function like HMAC to sign data, don’t use hash functions. Although not all hash functions suffer from the problem I’m going to illustrate, in general using a hash function for message authentication comes with a lot of potential problems because those functions aren’t…
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Emacs is not just an editor (2015)
Emacs is Not Just An Editor
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Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await
Musings about async await again and why I think virtual threads