In this edition of Age of Invention, the author discusses the fascinating story of Robert Bakewell, a man famous for his achievements in cattle breeding during the British Industrial Revolution. Bakewell possessed what the author refers to as the “improving mentality,” a mindset focused on optimizing and perfecting everything around him. Bakewell selectively bred cows […]
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Shh is a library that allows for shell-like programming in Haskell. It can be used in scripts and from GHCi, making it possible to use GHCi as a shell. The primary purpose of Shh is to replace shell scripts, and it provides many functions to mimic the shell environment. Porting shell scripts to Shh should […]
Are you feeling burnt out as a developer? Spending more time in meetings and arguing over deadlines than working with code? The author suggests coding for fun again as a way to cure burnout. Creating your own world with code, such as building video games, can be a fun and engaging activity. The author recommends […]
PacketMill is a system that optimizes software packet processing by managing packet metadata efficiently and using code-optimization techniques. It improves throughput and reduces latency, enabling high-speed packet processing even when new packets arrive much faster than main memory access times. PacketMill is capable of producing a customized binary for a given network function, grinding the […]
RxInfer.jl is a user-friendly Julia package that automates inference in probabilistic models. It offers clean specifications of probabilistic models and inference constraints, supports streaming datasets, and allows for hybrid models with both discrete and continuous latent variables. The package is scalable, making it suitable for large models with millions of parameters and observations. It can […]
Reproducible research and open science practices are essential for accelerating scientific progress and producing trustworthy results. However, these practices are not yet common in many fields, so there is a need for training that promotes their integration into daily work. This article outlines eleven strategies for making training in reproducible research and open science the […]
This repository is a work-in-progress decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the GameCube (USA version). The project includes various folders such as “asm” for unmatched functions, “defs” for Python modules used by dol2asm, “docs” for project notes and documentation, “include” for header files, “libs” for source code of libraries based on the […]
BOTLIB is a framework for creating Telegram C bots. Please note that the API is still a work in progress and should not be considered reliable until further notice. To install, create your bot using the Telegram @BotFather and store the API key in a file called “apikey.txt” in the bot’s working directory. Alternatively, you […]
The author begins by sharing their personal experience of helping their dad with building projects as a teenager and how it taught them that reality is full of surprising details. They use the example of building stairs to illustrate this point, explaining the various subtasks and challenges involved. They then extend this concept to other […]
In a bizarre turn of events, a seemingly random Youtube channel has managed to secure a high-value redirect link. While most other video-related keywords lead to legitimate destinations or 404 pages, the account @USACELEBRITIES (or @HindiListeners, as indicated by the banner) has landed a redirect to the popular playlist page. Surprisingly, there doesn’t seem to […]