Programming

If AI is too dangerous for open source AI development, then it's 100 times too dangerous for proprietary AI development by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NUD7rdbCm8

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YouTube

Why you shouldn't believe the AI extinction lie

They warn us that future artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity. This may be a lie with ulterior motives.
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There is a powerful motivation to…

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Programming

Coding a Neural Network from Scratch for Absolute Beginners (an intuitive approach, no math or technical terms, no prior knowledge needed except basic python programming)
https://medium.com/@minhaskamal/coding-a-neural-network-from-scratch-for-absolute-beginners-1e68bb0461db

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Medium

Coding a Neural Network from Scratch for Absolute Beginners

A neuron simply puts weights on each input depending on the input’s effect on the output. Then, it accumulates all the weighted inputs.

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Programming

Farewell MongoDB: 5 reasons why you only need PostgreSQL
https://blog.logto.io/postgresql-vs-mongodb/

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Logto blog

Farewell MongoDB: 5 reasons why you only need PostgreSQL · Logto blog

Discuss the reasons why you should consider PostgreSQL over MongoDB for your next project.

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Programming

TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them
https://www.ntietz.com/blog/til-uses-for-the-different-uuid-versions/

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From the programming community on Reddit: TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them

Posted by hongminhee - 158 votes and 31 comments

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Programming

Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy)
https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2024/05/08/2024-ThreeLaws.html

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mahesh’s blog

Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy)

I posit that most software engineers (particularly those working on infrastructural systems) are destined to wallow in unnecessary complexity due to three fundamental laws.

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Programming

What we learned from a year of building with LLMs, part I
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-we-learned-from-a-year-of-building-with-llms-part-i/

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O’Reilly Media

What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)

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Programming

Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-rejects-cve-severity-makes-his-github-repo-read-only/

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BleepingComputer

Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only

The popular open source project, 'ip' had its GitHub repository archived, or made "read-only" by its developer as a result of a dubious CVE report filed for his project. Unfortunately, open-source developers have recently been met with an uptick in debatable…

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Programming

Around 2013 Google’s source control system was servicing over 25,000 developers a day, all off of a single server tucked under a stairwell
https://graphite.dev/blog/google-perforce-to-piper-migration

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Graphite.dev

How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perforce to Piper

In 2011, Dan Bloch, the tech lead on the Perforce admin team at Google, published “Still All On One Server: Perforce at Scalehttps://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/39983.pdf .” The paper described how Google’s source…

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Programming

Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
https://tulach.cc/writing-gui-apps-for-windows-is-painful/

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From the programming community on Reddit: Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful

Posted by unaligned_access - 112 votes and 103 comments

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Programming

Problematic Second: How the leap second, occurring only 27 times in history, has caused significant issues for technology and science.
https://sarvendev.com/2024/07/problematic-second/

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Kamil Ruczyński

Problematic second

Today, each of us has many possibilities to check the current time. We have smartphones, watches, computers, TVs, refrigerators, ovens, etc. Everyone knows what a year is and what it signifies. We understand time zones and UTC time. Everything seems trivial.…

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Programming

A Git story: Not so fun this time
https://blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/git/

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Brachiosoft

A Git story: Not so fun this time | Brachiosoft Blog

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Programming

Beating NumPy's matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C code
https://salykova.github.io/matmul-cpu

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salykova