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The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits
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Gitea 1.10.0 Released
It's time for another major release We are proud to present Gitea 1.10.0 to the world. In this release, we've merged 322 pull requests https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is:pr+milestone:1.10.0+is:merged . The list includes 97 features and enhancements, and m
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Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
Update as of November 18, 2021: The version of PySyft mentioned in this post has been deprecated. Any implementations using this older version of PySyft are…
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SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure
Silly, terrible, no-good very-bad jigsaw puzzles. Featuring Voronoi diagrams, KD-trees, and Clojure.
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The Power of Lifetimes
The execution of a program unfolds over some interval of time. The lifetime of every temporary resource (e.g., variable or object) is the time span between that resource’s “creation” and “destruction”. This lifetime is wholly contained within the typically-longer lifetime of the program.
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Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer
“The world’s been divided into people who can make software, and the people who use software all day, and basically we think that that paradigm is not a good one. It feels kind of broken,” says Lane Shackleton, Head of Product at Coda, where they are building a new kind of document that blurs the line between users…
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Linux Terminal Goods
Some time ago I blogged about some cool terminal plugins I was using in my Linux notebook. Also some awesome retro- emulator terminals j...
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Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016)
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Goroutines and APIs
Goroutines are a unusual and powerful programming language feature, so they are a tempting toy to play with, and they get a bit overused.
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SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
Huge transformer models like BERT, GPT-2 and XLNet have set a new standard for accuracy on almost every NLP leaderboard. You can now use these models in spaCy, via a new interface library we've developed that connects spaCy to Hugging Face's awesome implementations.
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Banish missing glyphs with Unifont
The GNU Unifont project is amazing. It contains every Unicode glyph in one single file! I am going to argue that you should bundle it with your apps, your operating systems, and - at a pinch - your websites. The Unifont is a perfect fallback font. If your app or website uses a Unicode character which isn't supported…
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Go Is the New Ruby
How I fell in love with Ruby
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End-User Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
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Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture
How Docker 19.03 makes it simple to build images for most hardware platforms.
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Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack
Over the past year I've been working on a minimal-dependency hobbyist computing stack (everything above the processor) called Mu . The goal is to:
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Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors
How Ouster OS1 sensors create 3D HD maps, demonstrated by scanning San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building.
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Modern Script Loading
Serving the right code to the right browsers can be tricky. Here are some options.
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Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking
Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., EuroSys’19 On the surface you might think today’s paper selection an odd pick. It describes the labs enviro…
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Deep Learning on the GPU in Clojure from Scratch: Sharing Memory
Sharing and reusing memory buffers is inescapable if we want high performance. It is a sharp but powerful tool.
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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models
A hands-on guide to natural language processing with Keras. Covers word2vec, sentiment classification, CNNs, RNNs, and LSTMs using the IMDb dataset in Python.
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Smooth Video Game Emulation in Emacs
I have a lengthy TODO.org of things I might eventually implement for Emacs, most of which are not exactly useful, are challenging to do or fulfill both conditions. A NES emulator fits all of these criteria neatly. I’ve kept hearing that they can run on poor hardware and learned that the graphics fit into a tiled model…
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Android’s Commitment to Kotlin
When we announced Kotlin as a supported language for Android, there was a tremendous amount of excitement among developers. Since then, there has been a steady increase in the number of developers using Kotlin. Today, we’re proud to say nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android apps contain Kotlin code, with more and more…
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Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale
In a recent blog post entitled “Monorepos: Please don’t,” Matt Klein discusses the pros and cons - as it turns out, mostly cons in his view - of monorepos. The long and short of it is that he thinks that they are not a good fit for most teams. After thinking about this question for a few years I have come to the…
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Vim 8.2
For MS-Windows, download the self installing executable . Signed MS-Windows files are available on the vim-win32-installer site ( gvim_8.2.0012_x86_signed.exe is recommended) For Unix you probably want to get the latest version using git, see the github page Otherwise see the Download page for options.
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Flavors of SIMD
If you like this blog, you should follow it via RSS and read older posts . Here are the recent posts:
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JavaScript iterator patterns
This article explores different ways to create iterators and iterable values in Javascript for dynamic sequence generation, specifically using functions, iterators, iterables and generators. It provides code examples for implementing the Fibonacci sequence with each approach.