A high level intro to LLMs that I'm writing for a few friends that are new to the concept. It is far from complete, definitely contains some errors and is a work in progress.
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A high level intro to LLMs that I'm writing for a few friends that are new to the concept. It is far from complete, definitely contains some errors and is a work in progress.
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A high level intro to LLMs that I'm writing for a few friends that are new to the concept. It is far from complete, definitely contains some errors and is a work in progress.
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A high level intro to LLMs that I'm writing for a few friends that are new to the concept. It is far from complete, definitely contains some errors and is a work in progress.
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A high level intro to LLMs that I'm writing for a few friends that are new to the concept. It is far from complete, definitely contains some errors and is a work in progress.
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A high level intro to LLMs that I'm writing for a few friends that are new to the concept. It is far from complete, definitely contains some errors and is a work in progress.
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To the best of my memory Tweetbot has been my window into Twitter since pretty close to when it was released. I open Twitter’s web interface from time to time when I had to, but it has not been my primary way to use the service for well over a decade. There are multiple reasons I was fine with living as a second-class Twitter citizen. Primarily no ads, no algorithmic timeline, and syncing between mobile/desktop clients. I use a three m....
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Glad as I am that the personal website is having a renaissance – you know how much I love personal websites – for me that fulfils a different function from sites like Twitter. This site is my own space on the internet, but it’s me shouting into the void in a way that Twitter wasn’t. localghost
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Interact with MongoDB in an AWS Lambda Function Using Go
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www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com
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3 years ago
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eng
If you're a Go developer and you're looking to go serverless, AWS Lambda is a solid choice that will get you up and running in no time. But what happens when you need to connect to your database? With... The post Interact with MongoDB in an AWS Lambda Function Using Go appeared first on MongoDB .
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According to the always-interesting Ted Gioia, the recent turnaround of Barnes & Noble is to be attributed to the company’s new CEO and his love of books. Quite astonishingly James Daunt, who took the helm of B&N in late 2019, refused to take promotional money from publishers: Daunt refused to play this game. He wanted to put the best books in the window. He wanted to display the most exciting books by the front door. Even more impressi..
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Obsidian is an excellent knowledge base that utilizes local markdown files to store information. This means that you retain ownership of your data, in its original form, even if you decide to stop using Obsidian. This feature, in my opinion, makes it the best solution for taking notes. Nothing even comes close. Obsidian is built using Electron, which nerds despise. However, because it is designed with care, using Electron allows for cust....
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Our performance tests project is complex, we have +40 .js files, csv feeder files and use custom extensions, so we need to bundle all of that in a single image. We want things to be version controlled, deploy performance tests in a cloud-native way and the image to be compatible with official k6 image. # Build the k6 binary with the extension FROM golang:1.20 as builder RUN go install go.k6.io/xk6/cmd/xk6@v0.8.1 # Update README.
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Child Tax Credit and Dependent Care Expenses Credit Gutted for 2023
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www.joehxblog.com
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3 years ago
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eng
So I’ve started doing my Federal taxes and I had a bit of a sticker shock, at least when comparing it to my previous year’s Federal taxes.
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This is just a short post about how I chose to implement multiple choice selection in Go with the promptui CLI library.
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One of my first posts on this blog in 2020 was about my experience switching from VSCode to Emacs for all of my text/code editing work. I still agree with all of the benefits to Emacs I wrote about back then, and my posts on Obsidian show my respect for org-mode as a format and the ecosystem around it – especially org-agenda. However, as you might have noticed when the file extension on my posts switched from .org back to .md, I’ve move....
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One of my first posts on this blog in 2020 was about my experience switching from VSCode to Emacs for all of my text/code editing work. I still agree with all of the benefits to Emacs I wrote about back then, and my posts on Obsidian show my respect for org-mode as a format and the ecosystem around it – especially org-agenda. However, as you might have noticed when the file extension on my posts switched from .org back to .md, I’ve move....
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The fundamental issue I see repeatedly is that Interoperability (what Mastodon and Fedi truly offers) is a no-brainer for tech-types but completely uninteresting and in some-cases a turn off for laypeople. Creates a huge adoption issue. I’ve had conversations with people that go “I don’t care that other people can follow me from other servers - I want all my friends to be on the same server as me. Why would I just want some person to be r..
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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www.hypergeometric.com
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3 years ago
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eng
I kept hearing this book referenced in the media so I was curious and wanted to see what it was about. The book covers the changes taking place in the American university systems, and examines it with an eye based on moral philosophy, and anthropology. It outlines the issues and why we should all be […] The post The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure first appeared ..
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I’ve been drawn to the idea of having many tiny sensors around my home intermittently collecting data points about all sorts of things - the Lumen measurement of our bedroom at night, the noise of the street below us, the AQI of our kitchen. This was mostly a pipedream until Pimoroni came out with a series of wireless monitors with all sorts of sensors that use a Raspberry Pi PICO to send the data to an endpoint of your choosing.
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I’ve been drawn to the idea of having many tiny sensors around my home intermittently collecting data points about all sorts of things - the Lumen measurement of our bedroom at night, the noise of the street below us, the AQI of our kitchen. This was mostly a pipedream until Pimoroni came out with a series of wireless monitors with all sorts of sensors that use a Raspberry Pi PICO to send the data to an endpoint of your choosing.
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Event A regular Sunday run put on by the Dolphin Southend Runners at a 5k distance through Golden Gate Park. The weather was bad the previous evening, and looked like it might be a bit wet for the run. I had my rain gear, and was prepared for it to get wet and cold. The […] The post Race Report – DSE Polo Field 5K first appeared on hypergeometric .
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You might think paper writing is obsolete, or there aren’t interesting developments in writing technology anymore. I was surprised to discover: It’s very relevant, even to a software engineer (more on this later). There has been a lot of innovation, mostly from Japan, in the 15 years since I last bought “school supplies”. Here are preliminary, personal conclusions after a few months of casual nerding.
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Snyk enhances ServiceNow with comprehensive insights into vulnerabilities in open source software
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snyk.io
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3 years ago
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eng
We’re excited to announce a new partnership to bring Snyk security insights to ServiceNow workflows. The integration between Snyk Open Source and ServiceNow Application Vulnerability Response, the first of its kind, gives application security teams visibility into vulnerabilities in open source dependencies to provide a complete view of an organization’s application security posture.
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This post compares two nonparametric effect size variants: one consistent with Cohen’s d and one consistent with Glass’s delta. In Pragmastat, Disparity provides the Cohen’s d-style version normalized by pooled Spread . Confidence intervals are available via DisparityBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat In the previous posts , I discussed the idea of nonparametric effect size measures consistent with..
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This post compares two nonparametric effect size variants: one consistent with Cohen’s d and one consistent with Glass’s delta. In Pragmastat, Disparity provides the Cohen’s d-style version normalized by pooled Spread . Confidence intervals are available via DisparityBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat In the previous posts , I discussed the idea of nonparametric effect size measures consistent with..
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Introduction In episode 17, Bill began to design an in-memory accounting database that will store the account balances on his blockchain. To build this database, Bill will add a memory pool on each node that stores a list of public addresses with their respective balances. The balances on these addresses are reconstructed by reading the previous transaction records found on his blockchain. In this video, Bill will define the types of tra..
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Introduction In episode 18, Bill defined the Go type that will represent a transaction and implemented the methods to validate one. While developing the transaction type, Bill states that he’ll be borrowing concepts from Ethereum to ensure that he’s building a reference implementation. Bill’s transaction type has a field named nonce, similar to Ethereum, that ensures transactions are executed in order. The nonce value of the last transacti..
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Using qdrant for querying text data with vector search and geospatial filters without GPU (CPU only) Image courtesy Qdrant transformed with Stable Diffusion v2 by stability-ai .
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60 hours a week for ~6 years without vacations allowed me to build and eventually sell my company. This was not a great use of my time. I could have had the same outcome with much better work life balance. The rest of this post will talk about how I
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I have been investigating how ActivityPub is meant to work. What follows is how a boost/announce/retweet works in Mastodon and any other system that implements against ActivityPub. You can find the full collection on github https://github.com/boyter/activitypub and contribute your own details. ActivityPub -> Announce -> Post When a user clicks on bonk/boost/retweet the following sequence happens. The users intent is converted to an ..
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There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I've worked with (and missed in others). tldr; Talk with customers and prospects Develop and share a vision Evangelize Talk with customers and prospects As a product manager, your superpower over engineering is to have spent time with customers and prospects. You should have (or develop) a good understanding of the market and your product's potential. The only ....
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This is an “evergreen” page that I’m backfilling from reading notes and keeping updated moving forward. I distill and compress the #1 thing I learned or took away from various pieces of literature (except books, but feel free to check out my reading pipeline ). It’s far from perfect: run-on sentences galore to fit into the arbitrary one-sentence restriction. Nonetheless, I hope this piques your interest and encourages you to read the sourc..
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This is an “evergreen” page that I’m backfilling from reading notes and keeping updated moving forward. I distill and compress the #1 thing I learned or took away from various pieces of literature (except books, but feel free to check out my reading pipeline ). It’s far from perfect: run-on sentences galore to fit into the arbitrary one-sentence restriction. Nonetheless, I hope this piques your interest and encourages you to read the sourc..
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Background This is a question I’ve been wrestling with for a little bit. My first experience with a type system was with Java, and I didn’t like it. It just felt like an annoying constraint on the kinds of programs I could write. I was coming from Perl, which sports weak dynamic typing, so Java’s rigidity came as a bit of a shock. After Java I learned some C, which too has types. C’s types are different from Java’s in a big way: in C the....
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Exploring a Custom Terminal-Based Developer Workflow - Tmux, Neovim, Awesome Window Manager, and More
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zackproser.com
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3 years ago
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eng
check out my custom developer setup in action, complete with my favorite Gruvbox theme. I'll cover the tools I'm using and how they work together to form an IDE-like experience in the terminal, for free - without having to pay any ongoing subscription to a company.
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Flowbased: a quick look at first results of the Nordic Flowbased parallel run
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boerman.dev
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3 years ago
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eng
The Flowbased capacity calculation methodology that I have written about earlier is not meant only for continental Europe. In the Nordics (NO, SE, DK and FI) the TSO’s and market parties have been working on an implementation in their region as well. In the recent months they have started to publish results from their external parallel run. This is a process in which you run the new methodology in parallel to the old one still in production..
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Background This is a question I’ve been wrestling with for a little bit. My first experience with a type system was with Java, and I didn’t like it. It just felt like an annoying constraint on the kinds of programs I could write. I was coming from Perl, which sports weak dynamic typing, so Java’s rigidity came as a bit of a shock. After Java I learned some C, which too has types. C’s types are different from Java’s in a big way: in C the....
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