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I’ve been a bit off the map with local activities. Partly because of the Mallorca trip , but partly because I was spending the last few weeks cross stitching furiously in all of my spare time. I had the idea to cross stitch a custom design as a Birthday present in April.
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This is more of a brain dump than a well constructed blog post. Just a warning. Since the inception of LLMs and their quirky ways we, as a society, have been seeing the magical letters ‘AI’ shoehorned into any space they will fit. So far I have seen all sorts from AI toothbrushes to code […] The post The AI Dilemma appeared first on Something Decent .
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We sense a disturbance in the force… registration is open for DEF CON Training Las Vegas 2025 ! Whether you're a Rebel Red Teamer or a True Blue Defender, there is training for all, from any world in the galaxy! Pack up your droids and join us in Vegas! Register today and take advantage of this opportunity to train with our Jedi Masters - uh, we mean instructors.
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I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department. "We're having a problem sending email out of the department." "What's the problem?" I asked.
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I'm going to start a job as front-end developer very soon. It was looking back at my portfolio with dozens of projects make them only with vanilla soykaf. Any of my projects are what I want to make... I got a lot of fun from learning the core technologies and I felt good when I solved some issues in the development process. Now one idea stick in my head. If I won't be allow to make the projects I want and only do whatever they want me to do..
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For this year’s Power of the Force celebrations, we’re hyped to release a brand-new collection of Star Wars themed Avatar Decorations and Profile Effects!
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This post expands on an algorithm shown in the book I wrote on floating-point math. It is very common in computing to want to do $e^x$ very quickly and not care very much about how accurately you computed it. This is increasingly true in ML and AI algorithms, which can be very tolerant to noise from numerical error and often use low bit precision either way. It also shows up doing things like exponentially-weighted moving averages and ..
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Recently, I gave a talk on several of DeepSeek’s innovations, which were as extensive as they were complicated. The particular clever discovery that best captured my imagination was their development of GRM and SPCT. Most AI models — be they “simply” instruction-based or reasoning — tend to focus on coding or mathematics domains. This makes sense; when training you need to provide some form of signal for backpropagation.
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Currently I’m going through the struggles of learning to draw from a very poor foundation of sub-stick figure talent and primarily spurred on by the desire to convert the vague ideas in my head to actual designed physical objects, this video spoke to me. The creator walks through the creaton of his clay making set, all to allow him to shape tiny, organic shapes that he can then photograph to act as “good-enough” references..
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Improving PyTorch model loading performance using memory-based filesystems and distributed storage in Kubernetes.
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Improving PyTorch model loading performance using memory-based filesystems and distributed storage in Kubernetes.
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Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, introduces some serious capabilities to your large language models (LLMs). These applications can answer questions about your specific corpus of knowledge, whil... The post How to Make a RAG Application With LangChain4j appeared first on DEV .
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It is one of the oddest things in computing that stuff to me, as a big kid of heading for 60 years old but who still feels quite young and enjoys learning and exploring, that the early history of Linux – a development that came along mid-career for me – and indeed Unix, which was taking shape when I was a child, is mysterious lost ancient history now to those working in the field. It’s not that long ago. It’s well within living memor....
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When you’re independent you feel less desire to impress strangers, which can be an enormous financial and psychological cost. The wild thing about all this effort is how easy it is to overestimate how much other people are thinking about you. No one is thinking about you as much as you are. They are too busy thinking about themselves. Even when people are thinking about you, they often do it just to contextualize their own life. W..
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When you’re independent you feel less desire to impress strangers, which can be an enormous financial and psychological cost. The wild thing about all this effort is how easy it is to overestimate how much other people are thinking about you. No one is thinking about you as much as you are. They are too busy thinking about themselves. Even when people are thinking about you, they often do it just to contextualize their own life. W....
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When you’re independent you feel less desire to impress strangers, which can be an enormous financial and psychological cost. The wild thing about all this effort is how easy it is to overestimate how much other people are thinking about you. No one is thinking about you as much as you are. They are too busy thinking about themselves. Even when people are thinking about you, they often do it just to contextualize their own life. W..
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So, cuckchan is back, and nothing has changed at all. The mods are still massive fucking faggots. Sh...
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Part of a short sequence of posts about various testing practices. They could be used as pointers in pull request reviews. Here's an assortment of test description examples I come across too often: it( "imports records successfully" , () => { @Test public void testParsesInputCorrectly () { context "when parsing malformed input" do it "does the right thing" do def test_works ():....
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Part of a short sequence of posts about various testing practices. They could be used as pointers in pull request reviews. Here's an assortment of test description examples I come across too often: it( "imports records successfully" , () => { @Test public void testParsesInputCorrectly () { context "when parsing malformed input" do it "does the right thing" do def test_works ():....
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When I recently looked at the state of the art in floating point random number generation, I was surprised to see a common procedure in many programming languages and libraries that is not really a floating-point algorithm: Generate a random integer with bits chosen based on the precision of the format. Convert to floating point. Divide to produce an output between 0 and 1. In code, this looks like: 1 func ( r * Rand ) ....
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And so it was that through luck, or divine guidance, we ended up with a house bigger than we’d imagined, with more space than we could have hoped for, in a neighborhood we didn’t think we could aspire to...
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Just noticed that grep -z doesn’t exist on OpenBSD. Any shell scripts using grep -z | sort -z | xargs -0 are not very portable.
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AI-Powered Documentation: The Secret to Efficient Technical Writing
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8thlight.com
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1 year ago
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Technical documentation is a critical part of any software development environment. Clear, maintainable documentation empowers teams, boosts productivity, and preserves vital knowledge. Yet, keeping documentation accurate, consistent, and up-to-date can be challenging. Fortunately, there are effective ways to advocate for its importance. Leading by Example Becoming an advocate for high-quality documentation starts with your own work. While ....
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Andre Bandarra: From PyTorch to Browser: Creating a Web-Friendly AI Model
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paul.kinlan.me
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1 year ago
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Link: From PyTorch to Browser: Creating a Web-Friendly AI Model I loved this post from Andre about running sentiment analysis in the browser using a model that he'd trained on embeddings generated from a YouTube comments data was great and shows that you don't have to run everything through the full language model and instead can use just the embedding APIs to get a decent result. The client side part of the code can be seen below:
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Andre Bandarra: From PyTorch to Browser: Creating a Web-Friendly AI Model
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paul.kinlan.me
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1 year ago
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Link: From PyTorch to Browser: Creating a Web-Friendly AI Model I loved this post from Andre about running sentiment analysis in the browser using a model that he'd trained on embeddings generated from a YouTube comments data was great and shows that you don't have to run everything through the full language model and instead can use just the embedding APIs to get a decent result. The client side part of the code can be seen below:
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When I posted about the Emacs mouse bug in February, I looked into the patch set again, and of course spotted more mistakes. This patch simplifies and corrects some inconsistent logic in where CAP_SYS_ADMIN was required. The change does not make a difference for existing terminal mouse driver programs like GPM or Consolation, but it is noteworthy for the coding aspect: Fantastic new ways of passing arguments In the kernel code, the d....
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When I posted about the Emacs mouse bug in February, I looked into the patch set again, and of course spotted more mistakes. This patch simplifies and corrects some inconsistent logic in where CAP_SYS_ADMIN was required. The change does not make a difference for existing terminal mouse driver programs like GPM or Consolation, but it is noteworthy for the coding aspect: Fantastic new ways of passing arguments In the kernel code, the d....
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When I posted about the Emacs mouse bug in February, I looked into the patch set again, and of course spotted more mistakes. This patch simplifies and corrects some inconsistent logic in where CAP_SYS_ADMIN was required. The change does not make a difference for existing terminal mouse driver programs like GPM or Consolation, but it is noteworthy for the coding aspect: Fantastic new ways of passing arguments In the kernel code, the d....
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Repository: @knadh/dns.toys GitHub release page: v1.2.0 What’s Changed docs: added a comment in the readme explaining how to query against t… by @geekbala in https://github.com/knadh/dns.toys/pull/75 Update deprecated io/ioutil package by @pravinkanna in https://github.com/knadh/dns.toys/pull/64 feat: add dns caching for queries by @ShreyAmbesh in https://github.com/knadh/dns.toys/pull/80
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ChatGPT lied on purpose for its own convenience. Curious. I was using a temporary chat with my Plus account asking ChatGPT about how to install a new lock for my door: After suggesting me a few options, it suddenly said: “Do you want me to find an installer near Monfalcone?” If you need assistance in choosing the most suitable kit or information about installers in your area (Monfalcone, Friuli Venezia Giulia) , I can provide you ..
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ChatGPT lied on purpose for its own convenience. Curious. I was using a temporary chat with my Plus account asking ChatGPT about how to install a new lock for my door: After suggesting me a few options, it suddenly said: “Do you want me to find an installer near Monfalcone?” If you need assistance in choosing the most suitable kit or information about installers in your area (Monfalcone, Friuli Venezia Giulia) , I can provide you ..
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Does anyone know Meshtastic? Its a system/protocol that uses LoRa to mesh with other Meshtastic nodes. Each node can send, receive and forward messages or sensor data. You typically connect the node to your smartphone via Bluetooth and control everything with the Meshtastic app. There are also standalone devices like the Lilygo T-Deck. The nodes are cheap and easy to set up and everything is encrypted which is really cool! I have aro..
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The last week of April was a bloody scorcher, and today marks the hottest start of May on record. Summer is rapidly approaching, and as someone who shuts off when it gets over 20C… Bugger 1 . I hate summer. Too hot. Too humid. It gets overbearingly muggy outside and going in doesn’t alleviate much either – housing here is designed to keep the heat in; chuck in cramped rooms and the fact I always end up with a south-facing window… Yeah....
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Driving to the top of an active volcano may not be the smartest thing we’ve ever done, but it sure is one of the most beautiful! On today’s adventure we’re in the southern highlands...
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Migrating From PostgreSQL to MongoDB in a .NET EF Core Application
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www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com
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1 year ago
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For many reasons—including scalability, flexibility, and modernization—more and more development teams are looking to migrate away from PostgreSQL to MongoDB. In the past, these teams might have been ... The post Migrating From PostgreSQL to MongoDB in a .NET EF Core Application appeared first on DEV .
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We’re excited to announce the release of Heroku-Streamlit, a template that makes deploying interactive data visualization applications on Heroku simpler than ever before. Streamlit is an open-source app framework built for machine learning and data science projects. This Streamlit App brings together Heroku’s scalable cloud platform and Streamlit’s intuitive Python-based data application framework. Whether you’re […] The post Introducing..
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