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Dec 19, 2022 from Joybuke

We Cant Save the Old Internet (But Lets Try Anyway)

Anyone chronically online knows about the “old internet”, both the literal old internet and the nostalgia bait, nouveau “old internet” that is populated by contrarian hipsters (such as myself) who ...

Dec 18, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Paper Summary: Dual-Encoders in Ranking

In Defense of Dual-Encoders for Neural Ranking by Menon et. al. discusses the question of why dual-encoder (DE) models, also called Bi-Encoders elsewhere, don’t match the performance of cross-atten...

Dec 15, 2022 from Joybuke

The Dissident's Masochistic, Schizo-allegiance

Dissidents to our current regime find themselves in an unfortunate type of war: a war against themselves. A good portion of those dissidents roaming around today, rather they be trumpsters, communi...

Dec 13, 2022 from Silence Calling

The One

In search of whom

Dec 12, 2022 from Joybuke

The Political War isn't actually political

This may come as a shock, but our current political situation isn’t all that political. It’s a situation, it’s a problematic situation, and it is as it seems when it comes to the parties involved, ...

Dec 11, 2022 from Mr. Money Mustache

The California Effect

One of the reasons I don’t write as often these days is that my life has gradually evolved into a Personal Finance Bubble.  The people around me have learned to be purposeful with their money, whic...

Dec 06, 2022 from Joybuke

Delete Your Account, They Wont Miss You

One very common misconception that I see online is that your social media accounts are important because “that’s where your friends are”. This line of thinking is more common among the chronically ...

Dec 03, 2022 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

IndieWebifying my Website Part 1 - Microformats and Webmentions

This site now supports sending and receiving webmentions and surfacing structured data using microformats2.

Dec 01, 2022 from Silence Calling

O' Himalayas

O' Himalayas Where do you start and end?

Nov 30, 2022 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Handling Secrets should not be complicated: Mozilla SOPS

Managing secrets in Git repositories has been one of the biggest issues when I write code. I have used multiple solutions based on the complexity and how many things I have to do in case of leaks. ...

Nov 28, 2022 from Silence Calling

O' Himalayas

Still Majestic Unmoving You stand

Nov 28, 2022 from ~gallant

Life is Context - Language is Specificity

"Aaaaarrrrggggh!" What does that mean? It could mean I stubbed my toe - or it could mean I dropped something. Somebody may be in mortal danger - or maybe they just read a disagreeable headline. For...

Nov 28, 2022 from Home on Random effect

Vim's ~ in Emacs

For a bunch of reasons, I recently decided to stop using Vim emulation in Emacs, and switch to a different modal keybinding system. But that’s a topic for another post. One of the things that Vim d...

Nov 27, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

My Favorite Antimaia Games

This is a follow up to When Suboptimal Minimax is Better. After running 400 simulations, I can conclusively say that opponent modeling is pretty cool. The TLDR on opponent modeling is that if we ha...

Nov 24, 2022 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

Installing OpenBSD on Oracle Cloud

It finally works in 7.2! I’ve been trying to get OpenBSD to install on OCI since early last year. As described in my email to misc@, my intial method of installation was rather unconventional: Down...

Nov 23, 2022 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

First Go Project: A Jam-stack Commenting API

I built my first project using the Go programming language: A commenting API for the jam-stack. It is simple but easily extensible. And it powers the commenting feature of this website!

Nov 23, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

The Other End of the Earth

White areas show points of earth on land whose antipode is also on land. This is only about 8.6% of all of earth’s surface. If you want to fly across the Pacific Ocean, you’ll have to board an airp...

Nov 21, 2022 from Boris Tane

Exploring JavaScript Runtimes on AWS Lambda

Benchmarking a few JavaScript runtimes on AWS Lambda

Nov 16, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

A Few Notes on the Transformer

A self-attention block depicted as a neural network. In this post I will describe the attention mechanism, commonly used in transformers, a popular neural language architecture. Most of the most we...

Nov 09, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Rolling My Own Blog Search

I’ve found myself hitting ctrl+f on this blog enough that I figured it’s about time to add some search functionality to it. While there are certainly prefab solutions out there, this task is simple...