Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming

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Not long ago, during a discussion with a Zoomer colleague about how to find research material, I realized that he had never experienced internet search back when it was good.

Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API ⭐️ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics - getlago/lago

Truong My Lan found guilty of embezzling from Saigon Commercial Bank in case that was part of wider crackdown

I recently implemented a small program to visualize the inner workings of a scheme that compresses floating point timeseries by XORing subsequent values. The resulting visualizations are quite neat…

One of the most unusual sights in a city overflowing with strange sights is the slight figure of a 12 year old Vietnamese boy darting into t...

Inference and training library for high-quality TTS models. - huggingface/parler-tts

Paleontologists think that beaks may have given birds an advantage over other creatures

A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him, writes Robert Hanks

I spent some time trying to figure out when to make this announcement in a way that didn’t seem like direct sabotage; the day before the VCF East event seems about right. Years ago, clearing …

An LLM-powered knowledge curation system that researches a topic and generates a full-length report with citations. - stanford-oval/storm

Johanna Nichols, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, has used her pioneering work in the field of language history to learn more about language development in North America. She has ...

Stack Overflow should not discourage repetitive answers. It's a sign of a healthy community.

For clues to the future of warfare, study the struggle between FPV drones and electronic warfare

Here’s a discovery to bring you up short: unemployment is good for you. Really? Well, no, not really. But a new research paper has found a correlation that po

Chemical analysis reveals origin of coinage that stimulated trade and helped fuel development of new towns from seventh century