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HBase Deprecation at Pinterest
Alberto Ordonez Pereira | Senior Staff Software Engineer; Lianghong Xu | Senior Manager, Engineering;
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Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
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How does Sidekiq really work?
An investigation into the internals of Sidekiq, one of the most popular Ruby background job processors.
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Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
Last time we counted CPU instructions, let’s look at syscalls now!
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A counter-intuitive guide to better leadership
Intuition works from the shadows. Look at it directly and you get rationalization, not explanation—the verbal brain fills the gaps with a plausible story.
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Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
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INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model
We're excited to launch INTELLECT-1, the first globally-distributed training run of a 10-billion-parameter model, inviting anyone to contribute compute and participate. This brings us one step closer towards open source AGI.
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Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime
The personal website of JT Archie. Includes a blog, work ethic, and projects they have worked on.
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An unusual Google Keyboard bug
Why backspaces sometimes don't work the way they should.
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Documenting Dance: Keeping Score (2017)
At several points throughout history, someone has sat down to watch a ballet; a long and complex performance with multiple dancers and changes of music and style, and at the end of it, said: “someh…
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Accessing a DRM Framebuffer to display an image
To test if a display interface works we often don't want to use a huge framework like GTK or Qt. This article shows an easy way on how we can use a framebuffer directly on a DRM graphics driver under Linux.
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Turning the Tables on AI
How about using it not to think less but *more*?
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Decoding UTF8 with parallel extract
As a side-quest I recently decided to write a branchless utf8 decoder utilizing the pext or "parallel extract" instruction. It's compliant with rfc-3629 , meaning that it doesn't just naively decode the code-point but also checks for overlong encoding, surrogate pairs and such. Compiled with gcc -O3 -march=x86-64-v3…
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Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead (2019)
Use DIY CAN bus tools to convert your car into the best sim rig ever
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Sam Altman Is Full of Shit
Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scarlett Johansson, I felt the need to write something. Don’t worry, I
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Particle accelerators for the microchip era
Swinging for the fencesThe term “particle accelerator” might lead most people to envision long underground tunnels stretching tens of kilometers and rooms full…
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Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE
We discuss streaming and vectored I/O in Postgres 17. This is an important step towards implementing asynchronous I/O in Postgres. In Postgres 17 we do not yet have asynchronous I/O, but we do see a performance benefit from what is essentially a refactoring work around the internal APIs.
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Quaternion Differentiation (2012)
I wanted to point someone to a short explanation of this today and noticed, with some surprise, that I couldn’t find something concise within 5 minutes of googling. So it seems worth writing …
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CRDTs and Collaborative Playground
Learn about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, Yjs, and how we built a collaborative, real-time playground in a web browser.
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20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use
05 Sept 2024 — Oxford PV, a global leader in next-generation solar, has started the commercialisation of their record-breaking tandem solar technology with the first shipment to a U.S.-based customer.
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Monads are like burritos (2009)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees
Broadly speaking, the role of an establishment economist is to come up with new ways of saying, "actually, your boss is right." In other words, the world we're living in is the best possible world, and the fact that you got contact burns from collapsing on the scorching sidewalk outside of the grocery store where you…
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The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
People are starting to take geoengineering seriously.