10 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled
10 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled –Great useful list of mental models, biases, techniques and tips to avoid being fooled
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February 2023
Transformer models: an introduction and catalog — 2023 Edition
Transformer models: an introduction and catalog — 2023 Edition –Author” “I have a terrible memory for names. In the past few years we have seen the meteoric appearance of dozens of models of the Transformer family, all of which have funny, but not self-explanatory, names. The goal of this post is to offer a short and simple catalog and classification of the most popular Transformer models. In other words, I needed a Transformers cheat-sheet and couldn’t find a good enough one online, so I thought I’d write my own. I hope it can be useful to you too”
Rails initializers you don’t know about – Inflections
Rails initializers you don’t know about – Inflections –Fun Rails Esoterica. One of the features that new Rails people are amused and surprised by: “Rails come with a lot of initializers that we are not quite familiar with. One of them is the inflections initializer. In this post, we will look at what inflections.rb is and how we can use them.”
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? –This is a pretty amazing article. Even though it’s “non technical” and I read all of it, I think I only understood about 75%: “Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what’s going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.”
How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions – Kevin Schaul
How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions – Kevin Schaul –Last week I published a story for The Washington Post that required an interactive slippy map. Lookup maps like this are a common pattern to show a geographic trend and let readers explore the data …
GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy | Jay Mody
GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy | Jay Mody –Implementing a GPT model from scratch in NumPy. This is a detailed article including python source code. Ive skimmed it and it does explain a lot. But even without my being a neural net, ai, machine learning, gpt, chatgpt expert, i think i would learn a lot. Also the article is very well written presented.
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time –I love rules of thumb. Here are a set of them for graphic or visual design. I am not a designer but I fancy myself being to tell better design from worse. Anyway, this is a good tool for those of us who are wannabee designers
Inter-process communication in Linux: Using pipes and message queues
Inter-process communication in Linux: Using pipes and message queues –Learn how processes synchronize with each other in Linux.
35% Faster Than The Filesystem
35% Faster Than The Filesystem –An interesting study of performance. It seems hard to believe.
The day I discovered vmtouch
The day I discovered vmtouch –IntroductionLast weekend I decided to take a deeper look at the famous SQLite 35% Faster Than The Filesystem benchmark. I didn’t want to do a shallow read of the post. I wanted to compile the kvtest tool and run the experiments myself and see what is going on. I recommend
The Difference Between load, autoload, require, and require_relative in Ruby 📖
The Difference Between load, autoload, require, and require_relative in Ruby 📖 –An oldy but goodie source of confusion in Ruby. Author says: “Loading external files can get tricky in Ruby, but it doesn’t have to be. This post explains the usage of Ruby’s load, require, and require_relative methods, and when to use each.”
Unlock the Potential of VS Code for Ruby Programming
Unlock the Potential of VS Code for Ruby Programming –Lots of up to date information on how to tune VS Code for the best Ruby experience. A guide to a free Ruby development environment. Author says: “If you’re like me and your RubyMine trial version expired, you’re probably relying on VS Code. While the former is an amazing tool, it comes behind a paywall, unfortunately. Hopefully, JetBrains will reconsider at some point and have a Community Edition, just like IntelliJ.”
January 2023
SuperMagnetMan – Neodymium Magnets, Many Shapes & Sizes!
SuperMagnetMan – Neodymium Magnets, Many Shapes & Sizes! –Large Selection of strong and powerful neodymium magnets. Great Prices. Discs, Rings, Cones, Cylinders, Arcs, Cubes, Rectangles, Squares, and much more.
Writing Code Without Plain Text Files
Writing Code Without Plain Text Files –Many years ago there was an ide-like tool that worked this way too. No separate source files. It was a cool approach. Glad to see it back! Author said: “The Unison programming language doesn’t store code in files, but in a database. What is that like?”
git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos
git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos –git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command
ActivityPub RFC
ActivityPub RFC –The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.
Laurence Tratt: Distinguishing an Interpreter from a Compiler
Laurence Tratt: Distinguishing an Interpreter from a Compiler –
Simple sabotage field manual
Simple sabotage field manual –This fascinating reproduction of a CIA sabotage manual contains great tips on how to sabotage organizational effectiveness. Many of the tips seem to be universally in force in academia!
Laurence Tratt: Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
Laurence Tratt: Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques –Nice article about something I learned and actually really enjoyed in college but havet thought much about over the years. All about top down and bottom up parsers. About unambiguous and ambiguius grammars. About LR and recursive descent parsers. And more…
Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready –My question is what does the Y in YJIT stand for? From the author: “YJIT, a just-in-time (JIT) implementation on top of CRuby built at Shopify, is now production-ready and delivering major improvements to performance and speed. Maxime shares the updates that have been made in this newest version of YJIT, and future plans for further optimization.”