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🎲 The Filipino qualities we need to build world-class language technologies
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ljvmiranda921.github.io
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1 month ago
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I gave a talk at the Analytics & AI Association of the Philippines (AAP) on the topic of Philippine language model evaluation (Slides), specifically on FilBench. The purpose of the meetup was really to figure out (1) whether we can build a “Philippine LLM” and (2) what doing so would entail. I had some experience building open language models back in my previous work, and my research on multilinguality is directly related, so I was able..
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Last week was an interesting week at work. I moved to Canada midway through January and, despite being at Google for nearly 7.5 years, I’m a “Noogler” again, and got to go through Noogler training. Almost everyone in my cohort last week was a new grad from the University of Waterloo or University of Toronto (Canada, eh?) and it was really interesting hearing the questions that they had about working at both Google and being out in industry ..
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I wake up in our dark, quiet hotel room in Lijiang in China’s Yunnan province. My family is still asleep. I’ve already laid out my clothes the night before — a Nike Aeroswift singlet, shorts, arm sleeves, gloves, and a jacket — so I can get dressed without turning on any lights. I check the weather on my phone: 35°F now, climbing to around 40°F by the time I’m halfway through my run. I grab my Nathan ExoDraw handheld bottle tha..
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🎲 How to pick a vibe coding project you can actually finish
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www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com
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1 month ago
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It's possible to fail my vibe coding class in week 0. Not because students can’t code. Not because they can’t prompt. Not because they aren’t “technical enough”. They fail because they pick a project that cannot be completed in the time budget, then spend six weeks discovering that fact one sharp edge at a time. Let’s do the math you’re trying to avoid: Forty-eight hours is not “a small startup.” It’s not “a MVP.” It’s n..
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It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks. The Problem Statement The simplest way to visualise reactivity, in my opinion, is as a spreadsheet. You have a seri..
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Slightly conflicted. The spambot in October meant I was no longer recording my various forms of travel and the need for a new battery for my Apple Watch reduced my quantifiable self to a nubbin. And now I wonder whether I really care enough to do anything about that. Probably not to restore the status quo ante but possibly to have a slightly more meaningful approach to where I've been. Highlights of the month: Activities Nove..
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Trying and Migrating to Vivaldi Browser I have known the Vivaldi browser for years but never actually tried it, until it was recently recommended by Ralf Christian on X. Currently, I am using the Helium browser for the last few months, and it works fine but lacks some features like Widevine DRM, translation, etc. So... this time I actually decided to try the Vivaldi browser. I'm on macOS currently, so I downloaded the .dmg install..
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Alpinism I booked my first five day alpinism course at MountainBeat to climb the Grossvenediger. It is expensive, but money is not that important if you ever want to do it in your life. The longer you wait the older you get, and thus the more difficult. The idea of crossing a glacier and alpinism excites me. Those views are impressive, and worth the money. It is a risk, and you are paying for something that could kill you. Althoug..
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25-03-2026 I’m 30 now and I’ve never done proper workout my whole life. I’ve always been on the skinny side with 179cm height and 64kgs weight. I have a natural flexibility but didn’t have strength. 2 months ago I decided to change it and started bodyweight workout of Recommended Routine by r/bodyweightfitness. Now I have been training for two months and I must say first two weeks were hell. I was shocked how weak my arms wer..
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This is a story of a most unexpected journey — one that is just starting. If somebody had told me four years ago that I’d be writing this today, I would have stared at them in astonishment or laughed dismissedly. Yet here I am, writing about a late-found hobby that has somehow become a very important part of my life. It almost feels like making a confession. Deep breath. Okay, here we go: In 2022, at the age of 38, I’ve picked up ..
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This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, May 30th 2026. It was originally published on Saturday, January 31st 2026 at Megan's writings . If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report: a076b29f87f5008e64c66e7ef54833b5-656469
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I spent two years mastering buffer overflows and hunting cross-site scripting vulnerabilities at Johns Hopkins University’s Information Security Institute. I spent my first week on my first job after grad school learning how to write emails that don't piss people off. Guess which skill mattered more? No one told you what actually happens when you leave the classroom and enter the corporate world. So I will. This isn’t a rant ..
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Rishabh emailed me the other day, asking me to answer the 7 questions of his new blog challenge, and who am I to say no to such a request? So here we go. How was your first experience with AI models? I assume by AI models we mean the current crop of LLMs, and not AI models in general, because I’m old enough to remember when “Machine Learning” was a thing. What even is AI anyway at this point, since everything is lumped together into one ....
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Watching the recent rise of popularity in Linux got me curious about BSD as I've never tried it before, and even more curious does anyone actually daily drive it? If you do I'd love to hear your reasoning as to why you daily drive it instead of Linux.
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Karpenter v1 vs Cluster Autoscaler: A Production Migration Story
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andrewodendaal.com
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1 month ago
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I’d been running Cluster Autoscaler on our production EKS cluster for years. It worked. It wasn’t exciting, it wasn’t cheap, but it worked. Then in early 2025 Karpenter hit v1 and the API stopped breaking every release, and I finally ran out of excuses. This is the story of that migration — what I learned, what I’d do differently, and why I think Karpenter has effectively won the EKS autoscaling argument.
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Super important video for EVERY Washington state resident to watch on the extreme corruption that is the cultural resources survey scam. It affects EVERYONE and makes every renter and property owner pay FAR high prices than needed: Every single property I have worked on in both Eastern WA and Western WA has triggered these scam cultural resources surveys.… read more “WA State Cultural Resources Survey Scam / Bribe” The post WA..
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Canonical has released the first monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’. This is the first of 4 planned testing builds in the lead up to the final, stable release of Ubuntu 26.10 on 15 October, 2026. Utkarsh Gupta announced the release on the Ubuntu developer mailing list, noting that a couple of images – including the ubiquitous Intel/AMD64 build most of us use – are missing from the first snapshot. Those will return in time ..
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New resource: (en) The Persistence of Snitch Culture in Communities of Resistance & How to Defeat It
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Ideological Difference by SKS Heruglyphx of United Struggle from Within May 2026 permalink The same people who say I am too over critical, are the same people criticizing me. I am being judged by the same people who call me judgmental. As if calling me judgmental is not a judgment. For example: People say I am a “political extremist,” They say I go too hard in my prisoner’s rights activism I am too dedicated to th....
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My blog turned 16 this month! I did nothing to celebrate, but made some little tools and clicked some links about tech ethics. Things from me this month I published four little tools this month: ZIP Shrinker , a web app that shrinks ZIP files with higher compression ratios A command line tool to do (completely offline) translation Open Link in Unloaded Tab , a Firefox extension to open links without loading them png-cmp , a command....
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Nouvelle ressource : (en) The Persistence of Snitch Culture in Communities of Resistance & How to Defeat It
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Neue Ressource: (en) The Persistence of Snitch Culture in Communities of Resistance & How to Defeat It
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New resource: (en) The Persistence of Snitch Culture in Communities of Resistance & How to Defeat It
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This post was automatically generated. Chess For the Day Record: 1-0-1 Net Elo Change: 0 Games Played Chihoto74 - WIN Xandernghiem - LOSS Blog Posts On This Day May 29, 2025 (2 posts) May 29, 2024 (2 posts) May 29, 2023 (7 posts) May 29, 2022 (11 posts) May 29, 2021 (1 post)
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This post was automatically generated. Chess For the Day Record: 1-0-1 Net Elo Change: 0 Games Played Chihoto74 - WIN Xandernghiem - LOSS Blog Posts On This Day May 29, 2025 (2 posts) May 29, 2024 (2 posts) May 29, 2023 (7 posts) May 29, 2022 (11 posts) May 29, 2021 (1 post)
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Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matt. 6:34. We live in a world full of trouble. Another word that could be used is care: “the cares of this life.” Christians throughout all times have faced the cares of this life. The aim is not to let them choke out the harvest of the … Continue reading The Conspiracy to Distract to Destruction
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No fewer than 9 AI startups (of some kind) looking for investors on one of the more credible crowdfunding websites. (How much) do those two magic letters help?
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No fewer than 9 AI startups (of some kind) looking for investors on one of the more credible crowdfunding websites. (How much) do those two magic letters help?
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Earlier this year I got my first non-trivial kernel patch merged. It was a series of 7 commits and all in all it took over 4 months and 11 revisions to get it into good shape to be merged. This wasn’t my first kernel contribution: I had previously landed a small patch introducing new tests, and written about the kernel development workflow . Before talking a bit about the details of the patch, let’s introduce Netconsole for those that ar..
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Brazilian Internet Forum (FIB16) in Belém, Pará: A visual tour
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manualdousuario.net
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1 month ago
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I had the opportunity to participate in yet another edition of the Internet Forum in Brazil (FIB16), this time in the Amazon forest region, in Belém, Pará. The event, organized by NIC.br, brings together people from different sectors to debate hot and/or important topics related to the internet in the country. My FIB16, however, was a […]
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currently I can update every week and pages get posted to 4chan's weekly /co/, but I rarely post the...
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