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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), discovered by Ian Goodfellow in 2014, were an early method in the area of generative AI. I will focus on image generation as set out in the paper Generative Adversarial Nets 1 . This paper is the focal point of the post, I will guide you through the implementation of the paper…
Edit: This post made it to the front page of Hacker News! You can find the discussion here.
Graphtage is a command line utility and underlying library for semantically comparing and merging tree-like structures such as JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, and TOML files. Its name is a portmanteau of “graph” and “graftage” (i.e., the horticultural practice of joining two trees together so they grow as one). Read on…
Perf is probably the most widely used general purpose performance debugging tool on Linux. There are multiple contenders for the #2 spot, and, like perf, they're sampling profilers. Sampling profilers are great. They tend to be easy-to-use and low-overhead compared to most alternatives. However, there are large…
We need a fast way to query multiple potentially large sets of data on-demand at interactive speeds. Sometimes the easiest solution to a hard problem is to build the right tool for the job.
A multiperspective diagramming guide for system, software, cloud, network, and other engineers.
Introduction Deflate compression has been around for over 20 years. It's the format used inside most ZIP files. It's used by HTTP to redu...
We’ve all been there before: by the time you start graduate school in Princeton, you’ve already invented the Turing machine, pioneered the concept of computational universality, and pro…
The Haskell Phrasebook is a free quick-start Haskell guide comprised of a sequence of small annotated programs.
A comprehensive look at the design of Polar, and how we enabled it to operate over distributed data.
Dear readers, we are extremely sad to inform you that Rainer passed away on October 6, 2025, surrounded by his closest family. After suffering from life-threatening pneumonia, Rainer decided against further life-sustaining measures that would have severely restricted his life. He passed away peacefully, accompanied by…
Intro Fuzzy search algorithms (also known as similarity search algorithms) are a basis of spell-checkers and full-fledged search engines lik...
For a long time I was looking for some time to play with Lasp: Lasp is a suite of libraries aimed at providing a comprehensive programming system for planetary scale Elixir and Erlang applications. Ye
A look at why Chebyshev's Inequality holds true and some potential applications.
In my previous post I introduced SQL virtual tables and how to use them in Go—registering modules per connection, defining schemas, and querying external sources as regular tables.
Then Back in the 2000s, we wrote applications in layers. Presentation layer, client, data transfer, API, business logic, data access, database. We maintained strict separation bet ween these layers…
Update: The paper version of this post is accepted at PLDI SOAP 2024. Take a look at the preprint (PDF).
An open-source multi-tag fully local UWB positioning system.
My thoughts on Code School, an interactive online marketplace where you can learn to code directly in the browser.
Getting started with Zig's meta programming capabilities by leveraging a few useful functions
