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Oct 03, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The 10_001 magic number

Unraveling the story behind a magic number in code

Oct 02, 2023 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Summary: Deep & Cross Net v2

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.13535 Learning to rank is an important problem in many machine-learning products such as search, recommendation, and advertising. Originally, many machine lea...

Sep 29, 2023 from nixCraft

How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file

Are you a content creator or a blog author who generates unique, high-quality content for a living? Have you noticed that generative AI platforms like OpenAI or CCBot use your content to train thei...

Sep 29, 2023 from Darek Kay

Delaying asset requests in Eleventy

Simulate slow connections on your Eleventy website using dev server middleware.

Sep 26, 2023 from Luke Salamone's Blog

What is a blunder in chess?

What is a blunder in chess? The tension between the qualitative and quantitative answers to this question is at the heart of different approaches towards chess, and more broadly, how quantitative m...

Sep 25, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog

Importing Overture Maps Data Into Neo4j

A look at loading points of interest from the Overture Maps public dataset into the Neo4j graph database, plus writing Spatial SQL queries with AWS Athena.

Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling

Taking Off

A plane crawls on ground during taxi But in the same distance it takes off

Sep 23, 2023 from PREPEND

Quantified Kilimanjaro (or Procrastination)

I climbed Kilimanjaro via the Rongai route in October of 2012, capturing runkeeper, and other metrics all along the way. I’ve also been meaning to write this post since then and it’s taken over 10 ...

Sep 20, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Getting the Absolute Path of a Remote Directory in Ansible

There is no builtin way to convert a relative path to an absolute path in ansible. However we can use the readlink command for this.

Sep 20, 2023 from Changelog

XML is better than YAML. Hear me out...

This is a fancified excerpt of Carl M. Johnson’s unpopular opinion on the Go Time podcast. Click here to listen along while you read or watch the video on YouTube. Jump to the end for the poll resu...

Sep 20, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen

Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen

Sep 19, 2023 from Heitor's log

Multiplexing the output of a process to multiple processes

How to feed the output of one process to multiple other processes simultaneously, using tee and Bash's process substitution.

Sep 18, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Automated Planning using Property-Directed Reachability with Seed Heuristics

Masters Thesis. The goal of this thesis is to implement a pre-processing step to the Property Directed Reachability algorithm, to potentially improve the run-time performance. We use the pattern da...

Sep 18, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Air Quality Indicator

There is a new utility on my GitHub page, air-quality.el. It’s a status indicator for the Emacs modeline. I wanted a way to glance at how the air quality in my area changes through out the day with...

Sep 17, 2023 from Karl Bartel's Website

Consistent Handling of Git Repositories With Different Default Branches

Consistent Handling of Git Repositories With Different Default Branches Why Do I Care About Default Branches? Typically, I develop on a feature branch, and when the feature is ready, there is an ob...

Sep 16, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Negotiation Assistant

Negotiation Assistant

Sep 15, 2023 from Changelog

Strange Loop's greatest hits

The LAST Strange Loop conference is right around the corner! The conference has accumulated 673 videos on its YouTube channel, which means there’s gold in them hills, but finding the gold might con...

Sep 12, 2023 from unixdigest.com

Bethesda's Starfield is a disgrace to game development and a slap in the face to gamers

Nowadays PC gamers are used as guinea pigs when big gaming titles are released with major bugs, major performance issues, and other similar problems. Even though PC gamers are used as guinea pigs, ...

Sep 12, 2023 from Volution Notes

Lightweight container building blocks

Documenting various open-source tools and projects that I've found while experimenting with the Linux container technology.

Sep 11, 2023 from Volution Notes

Please don't write application launchers in `sh`!

`sh` is not a programming language! Write application launchers in proper languages!