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Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
Understand how transformers work by demystifying all the math behind them
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In Memory of Stiver
On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily devel
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Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics
The African Matabele ants are often injured in fights with termites. Their conspecifics recognise when the wounds become infected and initiate antibiotic treatment.
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I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
Leetcode-style interviews do not reflect real-world software engineering problems.
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Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
Algorithms are no longer a Get out of Jail free card. The Third Circuit ruled that TikTok must stand trial for manipulating children into harming themselves. The business model of big tech is over.
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Dynamic programming is not black magic
This year’s Advent of Code has been brutal (compare the stats of 2023 with that of 2022, especially day 1 part 1 vs. day 1 part 2). It included a problem to solve with dynamic programming as soon as day 12, which discouraged some people I know. This specific problem was particularly gnarly for Advent […]
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Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
This way of putting a cover onto a duvet might save you effort and time!
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AI makes tech debt more expensive
AI increases the penalty for low quality code. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
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Galois Theory
Note: These pages make extensive use of the latest XHTML and CSS Standards . They ought to look great in any standards-compliant modern browser. Unfortunately, they will probably look horrible in older browsers, like Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x. Moreover, many posts use MathML, which is, currently only supported in…
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Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
Back in Dec 2022, when inflation was running high, I built a website for tracking price changes in the three largest supermarkets of my home country, Greece.
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GitHub notification emails used to send malware
Malicious actors are abusing legitimate notification emails sent by GitHub to try and trick people into downloading malware.
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Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
Tired of waiting for iMessage to load my messages from years ago, I printed them all out in a set of paperback books.
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Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
With 380MM MAUs, Roblox probably counts more players than the entire AAA gaming ecosystem, is more played than Disney+ is watched, and is starting to rival smaller social networks in scale. But Roblox has yet to profit. How can it become a business comparable to its operating scale?
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SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)
I was talking to one of my students earlier, and lent him a book to read over summer. It was only after he’d left that I realised that — for me at any rate — the book I’d given him is probably the most seminal work in the whole of computer science, and certainly the book that’s most influenced my career and research…
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Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws
Dynamic languages are safe from memory corruptions bugs, right?
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Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
Apple Maps on the web is available in public beta, allowing users around the world to access Maps directly from their browser.
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Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
By structuring the comments on Hacker News using a predefined response_scheme for the LLM, I’ve tried to get a feeling for current job market and trends.
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GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much
Asking it to repeat "ponyuseRal ponyuseRal ponyuseRal pony" makes API requests fail
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You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it
When I was still working at Faculty , we took on a new client that was not yet named Matter . We eventually transitioned from an agency-client relationship to a startup relationship, where I became the VP of Technology. This is what I’ve been doing for the past two-ish years.
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans
How to build developer tools for happiness and productivity.
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The Reddits
"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
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Booting Linux off of Google Drive
Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her. I had to prove that I could create...
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A supply chain attack on PyTorch
Security tends to lag behind adoption, and AI/ML is no exception. Four months ago, Adnan Khan and I exploited a critical CI/CD vulnerability in PyTorch, one of the world’s leading ML platform…
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Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
Pets do the darndest things, especially if you teach them a bit of math.
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The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although still hampered by SD card performance…
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How I Use "AI"
I don't think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I've used them.