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Digital note-taking is becoming popular due to its durability, editability, and easy organization. Derendering bridges the gap between digital and physical notes, converting handwriting into a digital form known as “digital ink.” This process creates a realistic representation of the user’s handwriting style, enhancing the durability and integration of notes with other digital content. A […]
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Subscribe to Jacob’s Tech Tavern for detailed insights on iOS, Swift, tech, & indie projects. Full subscribers gain access to Quick Hacks tips and early long-form articles. Dissecting the evolution of Swift, from Chris Lattner’s vision to Apple’s current control, the language has become tangled with complexity. With 217 keywords, Swift’s governance struggle between the […]
Join us on a fascinating journey of scaling a 10,000 node cluster at Recall.ai, processing a mind-boggling 1TB/sec of raw video data. Unexpected audio artifacts emerged after a migration, leading to a deep dive into the infrastructure. The surprising culprit? Cloud-init logging causing SystemD and EC2 issues, ultimately affecting audio quality due to CPU starvation. […]
This study explores the capabilities of deep state-space models (Deep SSMs) for in-context learning on autoregressive tasks, showcasing their potential similar to transformers. By incorporating local self-attention in a single structured state-space model layer, the model can mimic an implicit linear model after one step of gradient descent. The diagonal linear recurrent layer acts as […]
The term “psychological safety” is often misunderstood as promoting complacency, while high standards are seen as the opposite. Figures like Elon Musk favor a “hardcore” approach, rejecting psychological safety for fear of slowing progress. However, psychological safety is essential for high performance in the workplace, allowing for intelligent risk-taking and reducing interpersonal anxiety. It’s not […]
The article discusses strategies for adding Rust incrementally into servers written in languages like JavaScript, Python, etc., to improve performance when bottlenecked by CPU. Tiers range from not using Rust to rewriting the entire server in Rust. The author benchmarks these strategies on a Node.js server with a QR code generation function. Surprisingly, implementing Rust […]
Dr. Robert Bork, a specialist in Gothic architecture, explains the surprising evolution of Gothic buildings from symbols of the supernatural to haunted spaces in popular culture. Initially designed to evoke the superhuman in religious settings, Gothic structures were perceived as lawless and chaotic during the Renaissance. The Gothic revival in the 18th century led to […]
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final year was a mix of tragedy and triumph. He died sober, working on his novel “The Last Tycoon,” hoping it would restore his fading reputation. Fitzgerald is celebrated for “The Great Gatsby,” but views on his writing vary. He struggled financially and health-wise, living a tumultuous life. His relationship with gossip […]
In the Signal Foundation president’s talk “AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s” at NDSS 2024, a controversial claim is made that the legacy of the crypto wars trading privacy for encryption ushered in an age of mass corporate surveillance. This surprising assertion suggests that export controls on strong cryptography in the 1990s prevented […]