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Tis the season for belated blog posts! Seriously though, I know my posting track record is terrible to begin with, but it’s especially terrible November to January…which I understand is a non-negligible chunk of the year. If it’s any consolation, most of that time goes to building gag websites of questionable utility as gifts for my friends and family, and traveling to and from the east coast to showcase said gifts. Anyway, I’m glad to be..
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Tis the season for belated blog posts! Seriously though, I know my posting track record is terrible to begin with, but it’s especially terrible November to January…which I understand is a non-negligible chunk of the year. If it’s any consolation, most of that time goes to building gag websites of questionable utility as gifts for my friends and family, and traveling to and from the east coast to showcase said gifts. Anyway, I’m glad to be..
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War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. It had been a long time since I had read either 1984 or Brave New World.
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I was getting frustrated with how long it took for a new terminal tab to start with zsh and display my prompt. I chatted with zsh wizard Alok Singh and finally bothered to dig into it and removed the glaringly-slow subprocess spawns (things like brew --prefix openssl) and some nvm related stuff was slow. What I came upon in my web research was this post which had pretty slick lazy loading pattern for integration with third party utiliti....
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Random sampling I've been working lately to implement random samplers from a number of distributions in PyTorch, both on CPU and CUDA. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, since it has caused me a lot of trouble multiple times. Once this PR is merged, I'll post an explanation/notebook of why this is important. Here's a brief summary of the motivation: We want to sample from distributions like $\operatorname{Beta}(a, b)$. Howeve....
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Bad Design is Bad for Your Health: Why Data Visualization Details Matter
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Presentation Abstract by Jody Butts, Sr. User Experience Designer Given on August 11, 2017 at the UX Australia Conference in Sydney Full presentation audio and slides are available here: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conferences/uxaustralia-2017/presentation/bad-design-is-bad-for-your-health-why-data-visualization-details-matter/ The proper design of data visualization details is imperative for accurate and actionable data visualizations an..
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I used to not like making resolutions specifically for the new year. It’s not that I didn’t like setting goals or that I never fulfill them, it’s just I didn’t see the point of only doing them once per year or waiting until an arbitrary time to make them. Instead, I’d set and accomplish various goals throughout the year.
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I have availability for new consulting engagements this year. Do you have an ambitious Node.js project you want to supercharge? I can get your team cruising with rock-solid practices and past all the pitfalls and stumbling blocks. Adding Node.js and JavaScript to your tech stack? How about some expert-led training to be sure your team is fluent with the tools? Ready to experience the game-changing effects of serverless applications? I..
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The Snyk API gives you access to all the issues associated with a given project. In this post, you’ll learn how to use the API to fetch the organisations you have access to, the projects for a given organisation, and all the issues for a given project.
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Repository: @knadh/xmlutils.py GitHub release page: v1.4.0 What’s Changed feat: add –noquotes option for xml2csv by @RoPP in https://github.com/knadh/xmlutils.py/pull/40 New Contributors @RoPP made their first contribution in https://github.com/knadh/xmlutils.py/pull/40 Full Changelog : https://github.com/knadh/xmlutils.py/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.0
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Dream job... to help others? To get famous? To help yourself? To get rich? All of the above? None? Hmmmm…
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I use Jekyll quite a bit, for this site, for the SingaporeCSS site, for my Penang Hokkien site, you get the picture. In case you've never heard of Jekyll, it…
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So what happened in 2017? Last year I thought I completed my basement arcade by getting Donkey Kong (see my blog post entitled “2016 in review”), but I was wrong! I actually got two new arcade games this year. The first one was an arcade machine I never thought I’d find in good working condition. It’s also the absolute coolest arcade game of the 1980s with its amazing vector graphics (as well as my all-time favourite arcade game)…….Atari..
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So what happened in 2017? Last year I thought I completed my basement arcade by getting Donkey Kong (see my blog post entitled “2016 in review”), but I was wrong! I actually got two new arcade games this year. The first one was an arcade machine I never thought I’d find in good working condition. It’s also the absolute coolest arcade game of the 1980s with its amazing vector graphics (as well as my all-time favourite arcade game)…….Atari..
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My favorite books out of the 102 books (~38,000 pages) that I read in 2017: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction Revelation Space series ( Revelation Space , Redemption Ark , Absolution Gap ) — Hard scifi space opera. Greatly enjoyable, with memorable characters, backstory, science, history, and of course the requisite galactic-scale threats. House of Suns — Set outside the Revelation Space universe, Alastair Reynolds manages ....
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My favorite books out of the 102 books (~38,000 pages) that I read in 2017: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction Revelation Space series ( Revelation Space , Redemption Ark , Absolution Gap ) — Hard scifi space opera. Greatly enjoyable, with memorable characters, backstory, science, history, and of course the requisite galactic-scale threats. House of Suns — Set outside the Revelation Space universe, Alastair Reynolds manages ....
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When NP-hardness pops up on the internet, say because some silly blogger wants to write about video games, it’s often tempting to conclude that the problem being proved NP-hard is actually very hard! “Scientists proved Super Mario is NP-hard? I always knew there was a reason I wasn’t very good at it!” Sorry, these two are unrelated. NP-hardness means hard in a narrow sense this post should hopefully make clear. After that, we’ll explore wha..
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When NP-hardness pops up on the internet, say because some silly blogger wants to write about video games, it’s often tempting to conclude that the problem being proved NP-hard is actually very hard! “Scientists proved Super Mario is NP-hard? I always knew there was a reason I wasn’t very good at it!” Sorry, these two are unrelated. NP-hardness means hard in a narrow sense this post should hopefully make clear. After that, we’ll explore wha..
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When NP-hardness pops up on the internet, say because some silly blogger wants to write about video games, it’s often tempting to conclude that the problem being proved NP-hard is actually very hard! “Scientists proved Super Mario is NP-hard? I always knew there was a reason I wasn’t very good at it!” Sorry, these two are unrelated. NP-hardness means hard in a narrow sense this post should hopefully make clear. After that, we’ll explore wha..
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As the year is almost over, more and more people start reflecting on everything that happened through the year, and start making plans for the new year. But the last day of the calendar year is just an arbitrary day. There is nothing special about it. It’s all in our heads. We assign that day importance, but it’s arbitrary. The earth rotates around the sun, and there is nothing special about its position on this date. It just happens to b....
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At best, it represents who you are and what you can deliver as a leader, and at worst, it’s a contract for what you aspire to be. I first wrote down my leadership philosophy about a decade ago by writing down all the values and practices I embraced. At the time, every great leader and commander I served with had a written philosophy—so, I thought I should craft one myself. It changed a lot since then, and I’ve changed a lot.
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At best, it represents who you are and what you can deliver as a leader, and at worst, it’s a contract for what you aspire to be. I first wrote down my leadership philosophy about a decade ago by writing down all the values and practices I embraced. At the time, every great leader and commander I served with had a written philosophy—so, I thought I should craft one myself. It changed a lot since then, and I’ve changed a lot.
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I spend a lot of time with dev tool and data companies. I think I’ve more or less banished myself to a life of working in the space, no consumer products for me. In that world a common topic that comes up amongst marketing teams is how do I get my team to contribute to content? Sometimes the person already has an idea of how they want the team to jump onto the bandwagon of their plan, sometimes they’re entirely open minded. I won’t get into....
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I spend a lot of time with dev tool and data companies. I think I’ve more or less banished myself to a life of working in the space, no consumer products for me. In that world a common topic that comes up amongst marketing teams is how do I get my team to contribute to content? Sometimes the person already has an idea of how they want the team to jump onto the bandwagon of their plan, sometimes they’re entirely open minded. I won’t get into....
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Here are my top album pics for 2017 (in no particular order) Note: This is by no means an exhaustive list, it’s just the top albums that really stood out to me and in all fairness, I’ve thought of several others since so there may be a follow up post (or two). Father John Misty - Pure Comedy As a bonus, a short film was released with the album: From Wikipedia :
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Here are my top album pics for 2017 (in no particular order) Note: This is by no means an exhaustive list, it’s just the top albums that really stood out to me and in all fairness, I’ve thought of several others since so there may be a follow up post (or two). Father John Misty - Pure Comedy As a bonus, a short film was released with the album: From Wikipedia :
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Here are my top album pics for 2017 (in no particular order) Note: This is by no means an exhaustive list, it’s just the top albums that really stood out to me and in all fairness, I’ve thought of several others since so there may be a follow up post (or two). Father John Misty - Pure Comedy As a bonus, a short film was released with the album: From Wikipedia :
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Here are my top album pics for 2017 (in no particular order) Note: This is by no means an exhaustive list, it’s just the top albums that really stood out to me and in all fairness, I’ve thought of several others since so there may be a follow up post (or two). Father John Misty - Pure Comedy As a bonus, a short film was released with the album: From Wikipedia :
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So this month, I met a lot of awesome people while attending my very first Mozilla All-Hands, among whom were Lin Clark and Jen Simmons. I'm an unabashed…
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My good friend Joel Shea received a most unlikely gift this Christmas - A vintage HP 4951 Protocol Analyser. According to the HP Computer Museum : Original Price: $3595 The 4951B was replaced by the 4951C and 4952A in 1986. Both new models handled Async, BSC, SDLC, HDLC, X.25 and SNA protocols. The 4951C also handled DDCMP, while the 4952A did not. The 4952A handled X.21 while the 4951C did not. Both new analysers used a floppy dive ..
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My good friend Joel Shea received a most unlikely gift this Christmas - A vintage HP 4951 Protocol Analyser. According to the HP Computer Museum : Original Price: $3595 The 4951B was replaced by the 4951C and 4952A in 1986. Both new models handled Async, BSC, SDLC, HDLC, X.25 and SNA protocols. The 4951C also handled DDCMP, while the 4952A did not. The 4952A handled X.21 while the 4951C did not. Both new analysers used a floppy dive ..
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My good friend Joel Shea received a most unlikely gift this Christmas - A vintage HP 4951 Protocol Analyser. According to the HP Computer Museum : Original Price: $3595 The 4951B was replaced by the 4951C and 4952A in 1986. Both new models handled Async, BSC, SDLC, HDLC, X.25 and SNA protocols. The 4951C also handled DDCMP, while the 4952A did not. The 4952A handled X.21 while the 4951C did not. Both new analysers used a floppy dive ..
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