2311
Bluesky adds direct messages
You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.
2312
The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger
In 2010, Congress capped fees for debit card networks so merchants don't get gouged by Visa and Mastercard. But the Fed stuck in a loophole for Discover. And that is leading Capital One to buy it.
2313
I Stayed
My insight into corporate legal disputes is as meaningful as my opinion on Quantum Mechanics. What I do know is that, when given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic.
2314
’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
After more than 37,000 votes on our shortlist, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'.
2315
Notes on Guyana
Over the summer, I visited Guyana (pronounced Guy-on-uh), mostly in and around the capital of Georgetown. I had plans to see far more of the country but they didn’t come to fruition. Sometimes whil…
2316
Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
2023 was the breakthrough year for Large Language Models (LLMs). I think it’s OK to call these AI—they’re the latest and (currently) most interesting development in the academic field of …
2317
Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions
Enable Docker layer caching with cache-from and cache-to using GitHub's cache or registry cache for faster CI builds.
2318
My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
Reflections on whatever I'm thinking about that week (the web, culture, computer graphics, math etc)
2319
Demystifying GPU compute architectures
Getting 'low level' with Nvidia and AMD GPUs
2320
LXQt 2.0.0
The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.0.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
2321
A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms
Guide to PostgreSQL Replication and CDC - Navigate the complexities of logical replication in PostgreSQL.
2322
FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention
In theory, Attention is All You Need. In practice, however, we also need optimized attention implementations like FlashAttention. Although these fused attention implementations have substantially improved performance and enabled long...
2323
Taking Risk
<p>I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College....
2324
A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase
Converting character by character isn't good enough any more.
2325
TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.
2326
2327
Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid
Market highlights and explanations from a day of records in ERCOT.
2328
The C bounded model checker: criminally underused
Follow along on a google colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/philzook58/philzook58.github.io/blob/master/pynb/cbmc_tut.ipynb
2329
We're not going to run out of new anatomy anytime soon
[This post received first place in the 2024 Blog Extravaganza at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History. Many thanks, Adam!] I first had this thought in 2019, and I started this draft in ear…
2330
The future of Deep Learning frameworks
Assumed audience: ML researchers who frequently work with PyTorch , but are interested in trying out JAX or have yet to be convinced.
2331
Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
The cross-platform app building toolkit
2332
34x34x34 Rubik's Cube
A 34x34x34 cube has become the highest-order NxNxN Rubik's Cube, announced Matt Bahner in a YouTube video. Soon, he will publish a full documentary about how he made it.
2333
Some memories of Niklaus Wirth
January 2024
2334
The software you need for holiday overdecoration
How EZRGB uses DBOS durable workflows to power EZ Sequence, its software for animated, computer-controlled holiday light shows.
2335
Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales
An article about music and geometry, in particular about musical intervals and scales and their geometric equivalent ...
2336
Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D engine
Note: the patch is available at the end of the article ( HERE ). This post is about its making-of.
2337
The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019)
A deep dive into the world of vector networks, and the engineering challenges involved in their implementation.
2338
Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth
The making of a simple analog synth
2339
The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something
No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
2340
Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)
When we started Segment , we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcomplicated spreadsheet we used to manage grocery bills as roommates, we really had no experience in finance when we started…