I wanted to try Android for a couple of weeks, I like staying on top of technology, gadgets and making sure I never become a blind ‘zealot’ for any platform or brand. The OnePlus 3 I did a lot of research and decided to try the “Oneplus 3” as it was good bang-for-buck, ran the latest software had plenty of grunt with the latest 8 core, high clock speed Qualcomm processor coupled with 6GB of DDR4 - the specs really are very impressive, esp..
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Wish media being the biggest performance bottleneck on the web, let's turn our focus to design. This post outlines 3 easy wins for more performant UI's.
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I wanted to try Android for a couple of weeks, I like staying on top of technology, gadgets and making sure I never become a blind ‘zealot’ for any platform or brand. The OnePlus 3 I did a lot of research and decided to try the “Oneplus 3” as it was good bang-for-buck, ran the latest software had plenty of grunt with the latest 8 core, high clock speed Qualcomm processor coupled with 6GB of DDR4 - the specs really are very impressive, esp..
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Link to album It had been a bucketlist item for some time to hike a well known route here in Iceland called Laugavegur. And so soon after coming back home from Canada, a friend offered up the possibility for finally checking it off the list. Its a easy walk, usually done in 2-3 days (a ultra marathon is held every year where the record is just over 4 hours!), and takes you through some fairly varied range of landscapes (on a Icelandic scale..
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Link to album It had been a bucketlist item for some time to hike a well known route here in Iceland called Laugavegur. And so soon after coming back home from Canada, a friend offered up the possibility for finally checking it off the list. Its a easy walk, usually done in 2-3 days (a ultra marathon is held every year where the record is just over 4 hours!), and takes you through some fairly varied range of landscapes (on a Icelandic scale..
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It’s been a while since I last lambasted any of the ideals that keep the American Economic Engine™ chuggin’ along. I’m talkin’ about things like “Exceptionalism” , “Overconsumption” , “Materialism” , and any other ‑isms and ‑umptions you want to throw into the mix. Given my relative reticence on the topic, I thought it was high time I took some pot shots at Uncle Sam. Subsequently, I’ve spent a long time staring at this blank..
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It’s been a while since I last lambasted any of the ideals that keep the American Economic Engine™ chuggin’ along. I’m talkin’ about things like “Exceptionalism” , “Overconsumption” , “Materialism” , and any other ‑isms and ‑umptions you want to throw into the mix. Given my relative reticence on the topic, I thought it was high time I took some pot shots at Uncle Sam. Subsequently, I’ve spent a long time staring at this blank..
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There are a couple of sorting algorithms in C++ from std::sort to lamdbas, each tailored to different use cases. As a programmer, you may or may not want to delve into the depths of sort algorithms. That’s a domain left for experts. Luckily, it’s quite easy to get started with sorting data. Contents 1 Sorting methods in C++ 2 Sorting "Hello World!" 3 Sorting structs and classes 3.1 Member operator < overload ....
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Creating Snyk’s GitHub integration, released in late June, helped clarify the different steps to truly address vulnerable dependencies, both immediately and in a continuous fashion. These steps are consistent across packaging systems, from npm to Maven to Chef cookbooks. This post explains each step, why they are needed, and how to apply them with Snyk.
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Best practices for efficiently checking iOS versions in code while supporting multiple deployment targets.
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I'm at the borderline of obsessed with Elixir and Phoenix lately. I've avoided writing about it so far because it feels a bit too good to be true. In an effort to test my own enthusiam, I decided to rebuild this site with them in the most ridiculous way possible just to try to test some limits. Because I already have an unhealthy obsession with PostgreSQL, we're getting crazy with it too. DISCLAIMER: This is not a "how to build a blog" arti..
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Prompted by thinking about hidden environment costs I had the intuition that a carbon tax could fix it. The premise was that, if we make carbon-producing activities more expensive, the market will regulate these down, giving a fair chance to “greener” options to replace them. Then I started reading about what carbon tax is and I am no longer so sure. I haven’t turned against it, but I’m realizing that the issue is a lot more complicated t....
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If you’ve programmed in Java for any amount of time, you’ll inevitably come across the terms bean, JavaBean, and POJO. What are they and how do they differ? Let’s start with some definitions:
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In this post we’ll get a strong taste for zero knowledge proofs by exploring the graph isomorphism problem in detail. In the next post, we’ll see how this relates to cryptography and the bigger picture. The goal of this post is to get a strong understanding of the terms “prover,” “verifier,” and “simulator,” and “zero knowledge” in the context of a specific zero-knowledge proof. Then next time we’ll see how the same concepts (though not the..
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In this post we’ll get a strong taste for zero knowledge proofs by exploring the graph isomorphism problem in detail. In the next post, we’ll see how this relates to cryptography and the bigger picture. The goal of this post is to get a strong understanding of the terms “prover,” “verifier,” and “simulator,” and “zero knowledge” in the context of a specific zero-knowledge proof. Then next time we’ll see how the same concepts (though not the..
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In this post we’ll get a strong taste for zero knowledge proofs by exploring the graph isomorphism problem in detail. In the next post, we’ll see how this relates to cryptography and the bigger picture. The goal of this post is to get a strong understanding of the terms “prover,” “verifier,” and “simulator,” and “zero knowledge” in the context of a specific zero-knowledge proof. Then next time we’ll see how the same concepts (though not the..
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There is a terrific article in last week’s Sunday Times outlining Netflix’s role in changing the way we consume media. The central question of the piece is whether Netflix will dominate the world it has created. Nimble competitors like Amazon, Hulu, and the major studios (once threatened by streaming) are each leveraging unique assets to disrupt legacy media models. From the article, we at AdRoll gleaned a broader framework for how pr....
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Over the last 100 years we have dialed into radio stations at home, on the road, or in the office to access a curated mix of top hits delivered to us by our favorite DJ. With more and more of our daily activities taking place online, we find our source of music now comes from a mix of our mobile phones, our desktop computers and the radio - and is available to us whenever we need it. The amount of music available today is endless. The music..
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Over the last 100 years we have dialed into radio stations at home, on the road, or in the office to access a curated mix of top hits delivered to us by our favorite DJ. With more and more of our daily activities taking place online, we find our source of music now comes from a mix of our mobile phones, our desktop computers and the radio - and is available to us whenever we need it. The amount of music available today is endless. The music..
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TLDR: Hi WOW Air. Stop not providing free safe drinking water in airplanes. This is a cruel practice, driven by greed. You are endangering your passengers. I endorse your frugal policies to charge for extra baggage and food, but not providing safe water is a crime in my opinion. Right now I am in an airplane of WOW Air. I’ve had a pleasant flight up until 20 minutes ago when I woke up from a nap. I get dehydrated quickly, so I finished th....
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note: This is a follow up post from 2015-07-21-rcd-stonith A Linux Cluster Base STONITH provider for use with modern Pacemaker clusters This has since been accepted and merged into Fedora’s code base and as such will make it’s way to RHEL. Source Code: Github Diptrace CAD Design: Github I have open sourced the CAD circuit design and made this available within this repo under CAD Design and Schematics Related RedHat Bug: http..
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note: This is a follow up post from 2015-07-21-rcd-stonith A Linux Cluster Base STONITH provider for use with modern Pacemaker clusters This has since been accepted and merged into Fedora’s code base and as such will make it’s way to RHEL. Source Code: Github Diptrace CAD Design: Github I have open sourced the CAD circuit design and made this available within this repo under CAD Design and Schematics Related RedHat Bug: http..
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I’ve been using Jetbrains editor (the free Idea community edition) or Pycharm with the Go plugins and very happy with this setup, the editor is providing some realtime linting but I was missing gometalinter. First install gometalinter go get -u github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter gometalinter --install --update To add support inside Jetbrains editors use the External tools feature. In Preferences > Tools > External Tools, add a configuration..
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A Course in Machine Learning (Hacker News) . How to start learning deep learning (Hacker News) . How to start learning deep learning . Machine Learning is Fun! The world’s easiest introduction to Machine Learning . Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019 (Hacker News) . What are the best ways to pick up Deep Learning skills as an engineer? (Quora) .
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A blog post by the excellent technical people at Netflix about Chaos Engineering and further posts about the subject by Microsoft in Azure Search prompted me to ask the question, What is chaos engineering and how can chaos testing be applied to help me? What is Chaos Testing? First coined by the afore-mentioned Netflix blog post, chaos engineering takes the approach that regardless how encompassing your test suite is, once your code i..
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Deep dive into UIImage thread safety issues and how to properly handle images in concurrent environments.
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I think there is an interesting correlation between being frugal and caring for and improving the natural environment. Thinking about this correlation led me to describe the wealth equation in my previous post Lets be clear. The wealth equation is not an absolute or accurate truth. It is simply a model of the consequences of our actions. I made up this model to give me a framework to think about which actions would improve my well-being ....
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I think that humans, and humanity in general are hard-wired to optimize our decisions for wealth. This has effect on the environment and our relations with each other. Here are a couple of equations I came up with, to help me analyze specific situations in life: wealth increase = + useful need - natural resources fair prices - total seller profit - hidden environment cost monetary cost = + natural resources fair prices + total se....
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Recommender Systems: Content-based, Social recommendations and Collaborative filtering
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9 years ago
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With the proliferation of video on-demand streaming services, viewers face a big challenge: finding content across multiple screens and apps. There may be quality information available online but it may be difficult to find. Traditionally, viewers resort to “app switching” which can be frustrating when it comes to finding quality content. With the emergence of […]
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REST as a concept was introduced by Roy Fielding in his doctoral thesis, named Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures.
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