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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
Learn how WebSockets caused Recall.ai's AWS bill to spike $1M and what architectural changes the team made to lower the cost.
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A career-ending mistake
As software engineers, we're constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn't it weird that we rarely give a moment's thought to the program for our own careers?
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Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa
I recently learned an interesting fact about Fibonacci numbers while watching a random number theory video on YouTube. Fibonacci numbers can be used to approximately convert from miles to kilometers and back. Here is how. Take two consecutive Fibonacci numbers, for example 5 and 8. And you're done converting. No...
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Building a rocket engine from scratch
How I learned to stop worrying and love the burn.
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Simulating Jupiter
I'm a Technical Artist with over a decade of professional experience in both AAA and independent projects.
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City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System
Hello size coding fans. Today, I have something amazing to share: A tiny raycasting engine and city generator that fits in a standalone 256 byte html file. In this post I will share all the secrets…
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How to lose a fortune with one bad click
Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him…
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On the Nature of Time
Stephen Wolfram takes a computational view of time, defining it abstractly, and the implications from computational irreducibility.
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Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
Project Hammer aims to drive more competition and reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector.
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Video generation models as world simulators
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our…
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Reactive HTML Notebooks
Can we build a reactive notebook in a single HTML file? Yes (by standing on the shoulders of Observable)
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Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly
Using the Overpass API to read OSM data, parsing the data with Rust, and then drawing the map onto HTML5 canvas.
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IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion.
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A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)
Can urban intersections be designed in such a way that motor traffic, cycling and walking flow smoothly and that the potential conflicts of these very different types of traffic crossing each other…
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Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite
Learn how we approached migrating our Wafris v1 client based on Redis to a new faster, easier to use SQLite architecture.
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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.
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Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid
Playing around with the Representation Engineering paper, I made some interesting control vectors, and a Python package to make your own.
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Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
Mike Bostock, Announcing: Observable Framework: Today we’re launching Observable 2.0 with a bold new vision: an open-source static site generator for building fast, beautiful data apps, dashboards, and reports. Our …
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Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence
Mr. Williams is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24. Gov. Mike Parson has the power to stop this tragedy now.
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macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
macOS 15.2 was released a few days ago, with a surprise. A terrible, awful surprise.
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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city
Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries
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Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
Does your day get derailed frequently because of unexpected circumstances?
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What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?
Dive deep into the open-source architecture of Lichess.org to understand the technical processes behind making a move in a game.
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Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website
I’ve received numerous complaints via email, social media, and forums regarding a website that poses a significant threat to our community. The copycat site in question is https://notepad.plus/ which appears prominently when users google for “download Notepad++”.
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A Tour of the Lisps
2023 seems to have been the year where I "made the rounds" of a number of major Lisps. There were several elements that lead to this. Firstly must have been my exposure to Elixir in 2022, which introduced me to the idea of debugging live systems and "staying in your program". Secondly must have been my chief complaint…
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Meta's new LLM-based test generator
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification
We continue our work on formal verification of Rust programs with our tool coq-of-rust, to translate Rust code to the formal proof system Coq. One of the limitation we had was the handling of primitive constructs from the standard library of Rust, like Option::unwrapordefault or all other primitive functions. For each…
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Why Bridges Don't Sink
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not just that it goes over something, but that there’s clear space underneath for a river, railway, or road. Maybe this is already obvious to you, but bridges present a unique structural challenge. In