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Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet
The following image is a "sneak peek" at the full implementation and the resultant system:
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Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code
This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …
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Math Symbols Explained with Python
Learn the meaning behind mathematical symbols used in Machine Learning using your knowledge of Python.
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War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019)
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020130 points49 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details
Today, in Part II of our three part series on War Elephants, we’re going to look at the drawbacks of war elephants. Last time (here), we discussed the factors that made war elephants so power…
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Combining event sourcing and stateful systems
Bridging the gap between stateful and event sourced sub-systems
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Ethics in Geo
Doing good and not bad
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Type-Level Programming in Rust
I show how two domain-specific type systems, information flow control and two-party communication protocols, can be implemented in Rust using type-level programming. I explain how interesting properties of these domains can be verified at compile-time. Finally, I construct a general correspondence between type…
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Self Supervised Learning in NLP
An overview of self-supervised pretext tasks in Natural Language Processing
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Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones
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TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
I mean, WTF?
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DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage
$8 pizza profits were nothing compared to the real trade
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My Favorite Books 2020
Mostly non-fiction books this year. Some in English, some in German.
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Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits
At Buffer, we’ve been using Kubernetes since 2016. We’ve been managing our k8s (kubernetes) cluster with kops, it has about 60 nodes (on AWS), and runs about 1500 containers. Our transition to a micro-service architecture has been full of trial and errors. Even after a few years running k8s, we are still learning its…
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Mathematica v12.1
Biggest .1 release from Wolfram. 182 completely new functions, plus updates and enhancements. Includes full HiDPI support, computation with video, data structures, asymptotic superfunction, mathematical functions, plotting, geometric optimization, vector plotting, cross-hatching, computational topology, tabular data…
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Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?
You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that…
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How to get stock fundamentals data with Python
Learn how to download fundamentals data with Python using the yahoo_fin package, including P/E and P/S ratios, return on equity, and more.
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Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage
Introduced in 1978, the revolutionary Intel 8086 microprocessor led to the x86 processors used in most desktop and server computing today....
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Understanding how AES encryption works
Deepen your understanding of AES implementation using golang.
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A Graphical Introduction to Lattices
Here is my (extended) family tree: Everyone in the tree shares at least one common ancestor and at least one common descendant. This ...
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Measuring Latency in Linux (2014)
How to accurately measure latency on Linux
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Compaq and Coronavirus
Compaq’s descent from a company of action to a brand is a frightening parable for the the West’s focus on talk over action.
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Building a command line tool to design a farm layout in Stardew Valley
This week's post will cover a command line tool that helps you play the video game Stardew Valley .
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Lessons for Early Stage Founders
In Segment’s early days, we hit countless problems as a founding team. And at the time, I thought those problems were unique to our own special snowflake of a founding journey. I chalked it up to us being new grads and first-time founders.