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It is a pretty well known fact that if you give kids one-on-one tutoring from experts, they outperform classroom-educated students by an absurd two standard deviations . The effect size is absolutely mind-boggling, and a damning brand of indictment against the entire modern education system. The problem is that this stuff clearly doesn’t scale, for two reasons; first of all there isn’t enough experts to go around, as it would require a l..
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Repository: @knadh/koanf GitHub release page: v2.1.1 What’s Changed fix: run submodule tests by @rhnvrm in https://github.com/knadh/koanf/pull/276 Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.30.0 to 1.33.0 in /examples by @dependabot in https://github.com/knadh/koanf/pull/282 Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.30.0 to 1.33.0 in /providers/etcd by @dependabot in https://github.com/knadh/koanf/pull/281
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The so-called “XZ attack” is all over the internet these days, and for good reason. Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library, eventually being granted commit access and maintainership. Using that access, they installed a very subtle, carefully hidden backdoor into liblzma, a part of xz that also happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH ss..
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The so-called “XZ attack” is all over the internet these days, and for good reason. Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library, eventually being granted commit access and maintainership. Using that access, they installed a very subtle, carefully hidden backdoor into liblzma, a part of xz that also happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH ss..
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Well, I've managed to go just under two years and a half years without posting a single thing to the blog. So, what have I been doing in that time? Time travel perchance? Or possibly something a bit more mundane like being frozen in carbonite or trapped in the Phantom Zone? While all very reasonable guesses, the answer is “no”. I've started several posts, but haven't liked any of them enough to actually publish.
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I recently finished reading “Vom Ende der Einsamkeit” (The End of Loneliness) by Benedict Wells. It’s a novel about the life of Jules Moreau, who loses his parents in a car accident at a young age and has to grow up alone with his two siblings. The book follows Jules through his life, from childhood to adulthood, and tells the story of his relationships, his struggles, and his search for meaning over a span of multiple decades.
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I think Peter Levels doesn’t need an introduction. He’s the guy behind Nomad List , Remote OK , and Makebook . He’s a serial maker and has been building profitable startups for years now. He’s also a big advocate of building startups without funding. There’s quite the well known talk from him from six years ago on YouTube . Here’s a quick guide on how to create startups based on the key points from the talk: Idea: Solve your own....
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In [[discrete-sample-jittering2]], I discussed the jittering approach that improves [[qrde]] for discrete distributions and continuous-discrete mixtures. In this post, I will show a brief example of how such an approach improves the accuracy of the [[lowland-multimodality-detection]].
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In [[discrete-sample-jittering2]], I discussed the jittering approach that improves [[qrde]] for discrete distributions and continuous-discrete mixtures. In this post, I will show a brief example of how such an approach improves the accuracy of the [[lowland-multimodality-detection]].
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Let's talk about AdGuardHome, a network-wide ad blocking software that you can run in your homelab. It's a great way to block ads and trackers on your network without having to install ad blockers on every device.
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Happy Easter! The second release of 2024 is here! It’s the result of 2 months of work by me and many contributors, aiming on releasing a v2 soon.
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Let's talk about AdGuardHome, a network-wide ad blocking software that you can run in your homelab. It's a great way to block ads and trackers on your network without having to install ad blockers on every device.
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Dune: Part Two hit theaters recently, which got me thinking about my own experience reading Dune in the past, what I enjoyed about it, and my own personal headcannon that made this novel more enjoyable for me. And hey, it’s April Cools , so why not put pen to paper here? Credit to this reddit thread for the initial discussion, but I hope I’ve expanded on the concept below. Questions I’ve read Dune a few times over the past ten years,....
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Dune: Part Two hit theaters recently, which got me thinking about my own experience reading Dune in the past, what I enjoyed about it, and my own personal headcannon that made this novel more enjoyable for me. And hey, it’s April Cools , so why not put pen to paper here? Credit to this reddit thread for the initial discussion, but I hope I’ve expanded on the concept below. Questions I’ve read Dune a few times over the past ten years,....
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Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me? Me: Sure, let me just: SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists source
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Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me? Me: Sure, let me just: SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists source
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Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me? Me: Sure, let me just: SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists source
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It’s April Cools! Last year I wrote about friendship bracelets and the year before about cocktails. This year it’s parenting. Parenting articles are a dime a dozen and always bury the lede behind a long story. I’ll skip that. How to think about your child and your role as a parent These are framing devices. Concrete things to do to work toward these are in the next section. I will refer to the numbers for each action to show what principle ..
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It’s April Cools! Last year I wrote about friendship bracelets and the year before about cocktails. This year it’s parenting. Parenting articles are a dime a dozen and always bury the lede behind a long story. I’ll skip that. How to think about your child and your role as a parent These are framing devices. Concrete things to do to work toward these are in the next section. I will refer to the numbers for each action to show what principle ..
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It’s April Cools! Last year I wrote about friendship bracelets and the year before about cocktails. This year it’s parenting. Parenting articles are a dime a dozen and always bury the lede behind a long story. I’ll skip that. How to think about your child and your role as a parent These are framing devices. Concrete things to do to work toward these are in the next section. I will refer to the numbers for each action to show what principle ..
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Merle (2012-03-21 – 2024-03-21) The photo of Merle links to a short video. Turn up your volume to hear Merle purr. Welcome to March 2024’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of my experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Podcasts Alphabet Boys (I Liked It): “Entrapment” is such a dirty word. We prefer to call it “standard operating procedure”. Love, Janessa (I Liked It): We are all hostages of our media bubbles. We all miss what is obvious....
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Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
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Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
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The packaging workflow of Python has historically been a bit messy, starting with pip being just good enough, and virtualenvs being a great idea but a bit unwieldy. Installation was difficult, and tools like anaconda filled the gaps. Lately, there’s been renaissance of package tooling in Python thanks to other languages innovating in the area, inspiring and pollinating the ecosystem, improving the comfort of development. I want to pre..
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The packaging workflow of Python has historically been a bit messy, starting with pip being just good enough, and virtualenvs being a great idea but a bit unwieldy. Installation was difficult, and tools like anaconda filled the gaps. Lately, there’s been renaissance of package tooling in Python thanks to other languages innovating in the area, inspiring and pollinating the ecosystem, improving the comfort of development. I want to pre..
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Bookmarks for April 2024: 3 links - How I write tests in Go :: Very Good Software, Not Virus; Why you need a "WTF Notebook"; How to boost your metabolism at any age - CNN.
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This month, several things within the wider field of privacy and security happened that we felt we should report on. Signal introducing usernames Signal allows for contacting others using usernames now (note their blog post was written last month, however the change was not rolled out on the stable version before this month, I believe). This means that you can now chat with other beings on Signal without revealing your phone number to t....
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On the 29th of March 2024, the high-stakes investment and prolonged campaign to plant a backdoor in the Linux software library liblzma to gain access to multiple operating systems via Linux distributions was carried out by a malicious actor.
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Happy Easter, everyone. This morning, I completed the long-overdue move of all my ripped CDs from my old 2012 MacBook Pro to the new one and, then, to my iPhone. I’m using Doppler on both devices. I like Doppler, a simple yet elegant MP3 player app with few well-thought-out features. I am increasingly convinced that returning to purchased music is the way . I’ve been listening to streaming services for so long that I almost forgot the ac..
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Happy Easter, everyone. This morning, I completed the long-overdue move of all my ripped CDs from my old 2012 MacBook Pro to the new one and, then, to my iPhone. I’m using Doppler on both devices. I like Doppler, a simple yet elegant MP3 player app with few well-thought-out features. I am increasingly convinced that returning to purchased music is the way . I’ve been listening to streaming services for so long that I almost forgot the ac..
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Happy Easter, everyone. This morning, I completed the long-overdue move of all my ripped CDs from my old 2012 MacBook Pro to the new one and, then, to my iPhone. I’m using Doppler on both devices. I like Doppler, a simple yet elegant MP3 player app with few well-thought-out features. I am increasingly convinced that returning to purchased music is the way . I’ve been listening to streaming services for so long that I almost forgot the ac..
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Melody is basically describing me: Many introverts value depth and thoughtfulness in their work over noise and showmanship. They’re content to contribute without constant recognition or the spotlight. And the consequences part also checks out: While this tendency is admirable, it comes with pitfalls, especially in the modern, remote-first work world where being “out of sight” often equates to being “out of mind.” Perhaps you’ve b..
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