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Neanderthal vs. ND4J – Native Performance, Java and CPU
Today, Java has a choice of a few well maintained libraries that can use Intel's MKL for fast native operations. MKL is basically as fast as you can get toda...
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Text Matching Using Cosine Similarity
Recently I was working on a project where I have to cluster all the words which have a similar name. For a novice it looks a pretty simple job of using some Fuzzy string matching tools and get this done. However in reality this was a challenge because of multiple reasons starting from pre-processing of the data to…
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Incrementally Improving the DOM
Last time , I tried to convince you that you might not need the virtual DOM, and that many common UI patterns can be reproduced with a completely static page, with changes only happening at the leaves of the tree - attributes and text nodes. For some trickier UI patterns, I added back a limited form of dynamic…
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Making a low level Linux debugger, part 2: C
Last time , we started making a debugger and live editor for (re)creating assembly and C programs.
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Mobile Smalltalk
I've been announcing the Open Beta release of my game HexSolve for Android and iOS. HexSolve was written in Smalltalk and people have been ...
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A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs
While in the middle of writing “Reading bits in far too many ways, part 3”, I realized that I had written a lot of background material that had absolutely nothing to do with bit I/O and…
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Systems, not Programs
We need programming, but do we need the program?
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My Haskell Journey from C#
SUNWIN tiếp tục dẫn đầu thị trường game đổi thưởng Việt Nam với hơn 5 triệu người chơi và tỷ lệ thắng cược minh bạch.
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Semantic Image Segmentation with DeepLab in Tensorflow
Posted by Liang-Chieh Chen and Yukun Zhu, Software Engineers, Google ResearchSemantic image segmentation, the task of assigning a semantic label, s...
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How JavaScript works: The building blocks of Web Workers
PlaybookUX is an all-in-one software that allows you to recruit, conduct and analyze both qualitative and quantitative research, enhanced by AI.
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Portability of tar features
The tar format is one of the oldest archive formats in use. It comes as no surprise that it is ugly — built as layers of hacks on the older format versions to overcome their limitations. However, given the POSIX standarization in late 80s and the popularity of GNU tar, you would expect the interoperability problems to…
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Pessimism about parallelism
Massive concurrency and hardware parallelism are sexy topics in the 21st century. There are a couple of good reasons for this and one rather unfortunate one.
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The State of the Octoverse: top programming languages of 2018
Take a closer look into why—and where—top programming languages are popular.
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Defending your app from copies and clones
App developers sometimes ask me what they should do when their features, designs, or entire apps are copied by competitors.
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Transferring GitHub stars
Aftermath of how I moved stars to a great project from an simple project with undeserved stars
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Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with GCC and Clang
Recent switch of official Firefox builds to Clang on all platforms has triggered some questions about the quality of code produced by GCC c...
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MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)
The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.
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Semantic Compression
An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.
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Is Lisp Still Unique? Or at Least Different? (2002)
October 1997: It has been six years since I finished Paradigms of AI Programming (or PAIP ), and now seems like a good time to look back at how Lisp and AI programming have changed.
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Phoenix.LiveView: Interactive, Real-Time Apps. No Need to Write JavaScript
Phoenix LiveView is an exciting new library which enables rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML.
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Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range
The vast majority of my posts about random number generation have focused on looking at the properties of different generation schemes. But, perhaps surprisingly, the performance of your randomized a
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