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Firezone uses Rust to build secure remote access apps with a connectivity library called connlib. Their design, known as sans-IO, abstracts away communication complexities by implementing protocols as pure state machines. This design choice, common in the Python world, allows for flexible network services with minimal dependencies. The post discusses Rust’s async model, the “function […]
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As an Indie Maker, the struggle to “Just Ship It” is real. The author shares their journey of continuously adding features to their app, never feeling ready to release it. After years of development, they stumbled upon a competitor who had solved the same problem and more. Despite the competitor’s app being slow and unpolished, […]
The Ladybird Browser Initiative, founded by Chris Wanstrath and Andreas Kling, aims to develop a web browser completely free of corporate control and advertising revenue. The idea of funding a new browser solely through sponsorships and donations is unique and intriguing. Ladybird has already received significant funding and is making progress towards a functional Alpha […]
This article provides an overview of the first 10,000 games played at bgammon.org, highlighting the journey and contributions of community members. The site now hosts around 100 games per day, including backgammon, acey-deucey, and tabula. Two community members, f-a and EGYT, have made significant contributions to the site’s development, including suggestions for client and server […]
The article discusses the significance of the number e, approximately 2.71828, in exponential functions and logarithms. Despite seeming artificial in origin, e has special mathematical properties. It stemmed from efforts to simplify compound interest calculations and logarithmic tables in the 16th century. The number e is irrational, transcendental, and closely related to trigonometric functions, like […]
The post discusses Attention and The Transformer, essential concepts in modern deep learning models, focusing on neural machine translation. The Transformer, developed to speed up model training and outperform Google’s model, uses attention and parallelization effectively. The encoding and decoding components consist of multiple layers, including self-attention and feed-forward networks. Multi-headed attention allows the model […]
The Tegra X1 SoC in the Nintendo Switch was originally intended for various uses like Android set top boxes and automotive applications, with a focus on video encode and decode capabilities. The Tegra X1’s video engine surpasses desktop Maxwell’s in certain aspects, and requires custom software support from Nvidia. Testing showed that the Tegra X1 […]
Artificial intelligence models used in medical diagnoses, especially with images like X-rays, have shown to have accuracy discrepancies across demographic groups, performing worse in women and people of color. A surprising development in 2022 showed that AI models are able to predict a patient’s race from chest X-rays, surpassing radiologists. Researchers have found that these […]
Palico AI offers a unique LLM Development Framework that allows developers to streamline their application development process for LLM models by enabling rapid experimentation. With thousands of possible combinations to try, Palico helps structure your applications for easy testing and iteration towards accuracy goals. Developers can easily swap out models, prompts, context, and more to […]
Julia gave a talk explaining Hilbert’s Tenth Problem (H10) in San Francisco in 1974, shedding light on Diophantine equations and their historical significance. The problem, posed by Hilbert in 1900, sought an algorithm to determine if a Diophantine equation had integer solutions. The solution, achieved by Yuri Matiyasevich with contributions from Julia and others, marked […]