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Jun 28, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Very Large Datasets in PyTorch

In God we trust. All others must bring data. ~ W. Edwards Deming Datasets that fit in memory For simple machine learning problems, your PyTorch dataset class probably looks something like this: cla...

Jun 26, 2024 from seize the dev

A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation

Figuring out why a seemingly simple floating-point calculation returned a very wrong result.

Jun 24, 2024 from Thranpages

MacOS: Mail from 1993

Apple's MacOS presents itself as a slick and modern operating system. Yet under the modern garb the ancient roots run deep.

Jun 23, 2024 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

When you have an evening and a morning in Granada

A brief visit to the a wonderful old town and an unbelievably serene Generalife

Jun 23, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

On valid XHTML5 again

Reply to what if I put in a bunch of effort to make my website valid XHTML5 by LunarEclipse Switching a site to XHTML5 is only a lot of work at first, because it may have latent bugs. For instance,...

Jun 19, 2024 from Ryan Bagley

Exceptions For Removing Private Autonomous Systems in BGP

Quite a while ago, I got assigned to what seemed like a straightforward network task: turning up a simple cross connect with an external company using eBGP for route advertisement. However, this mu...

Jun 18, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

How to Create Rust Python Bindings

Rust is super fast. Python is super flexible. Porting slow python code to rust can make your life a lot easier, and it’s not too difficult to set up. I will demonstrate rust bindings for summing th...

Jun 18, 2024 from Boris Tane

Lessons from self-hosting ClickHouse

We self-hosted ClickHouse for nearly 3 years, what did we learn?

Jun 16, 2024 from nixCraft

lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix

It is no secret that whether you are a developer or sysadmin, you need to use log files to troubleshoot errors on your Linux and Unix systems. You use tools like grep, tail, cat, or journalctl to v...

Jun 14, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

The Most Ramified Chess Position of 2023

I spent some time considering words to describe a chess position with many legal moves. “Complex” doesn’t quite capture the situation since we would usually describe a complex position as one with ...

Jun 13, 2024 from Muffin Man

Node.js script to run multiple commands in parallel

If you encountered a case where you wanted to run multiple commands in parallel, the usual suggestion is to use the shell's & operator to send commands to the background. This approach kind of work...

Jun 13, 2024 from Heitor's log

TIL: looping over hex numbers in Bash

TIL: looping over hexadecimal numbers in Bash just takes one line.

Jun 09, 2024 from Ishan Das Sharma

Why FileLinks Didn't Work in Google Colab

If you’ve ever worked on a project in Google Colab and tried to provide download links for files using FileLink, you might have encountered some issues. Specifically, you might have noticed that th...

Jun 07, 2024 from Boris Tane

Lessons from starting, building, and exiting a devtools startup

Key learnings from building Baselime

Jun 06, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

What are Sparse Autoencoders?

MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']], displayMath: [['$$','$$'], ['\[','\]']], processEscapes: true, processEnvironments: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 's...

Jun 05, 2024 from Heitor's log

TIL: Listing PCI devices by their vendor or class

Listing PCI devices by manufacturer and/or device type/class.

Jun 01, 2024 from Home on A blog

Riding the AI Hype Train: Destination or Derailment?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has swiftly transitioned from a niche technology to a mainstream phenomenon, heralded as the next big revolution in tech. Everywhere you turn, AI is making headlines. F...

May 30, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

Takeaways from the Google Content Warehouse API documentation leak

My thoughts on Google's Content Warehouse API doc leak, what we can learn from its ranking factors, and why the following SEO hype is overblown.

May 30, 2024 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

AIs vs the SQL Server Fill Factor - It is not easy to be a AI DBA

Do you also have the feeling AI advice often tricks you as much as it helps? Today I challenged a colleague who specified a fill factor of 80 of when creating a new table with a non-clustered index...

May 29, 2024 from Michael Lynch

I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business

My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my businesses lost money. I began questioning my decision to quit my cushy Google job....