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Willingness to look stupid

People frequently1 think that I’m very stupid. I don’t find this surprising, since I don’t mind if other people think I’m stupid, which means that I...

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What to learn

It’s common to see people advocate for learning skills that they have or using processes that they use. For example, Steve Yegge has a set of...

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The value of in-house expertise

An alternate title for this post might be, “Twitter has a kernel team!?”. At this point, I’ve heard that surprised exclamation enough that I’ve lost count...

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IPv4 vs IPv6

The Internet Protocol (IP) is a set of rules for that specifies addressing and routing the data between computers.

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Deno 1.14 Release Notes

Deno 1.14 improves Web Crypto support, adds customization options to deno fmt and deno lint, introduces URLPattern, and more.

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Deno Deploy Beta 2

Deno Deploy is a multi-tenant distributed JavaScript VM running in 25 data centers across the world.

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Deno 1.13 Release Notes

Deno 1.13 stabilizes the native HTTP server, and introduces FFI, a streaming WebSocket API, the new self.structuredClone() function and more.

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What is Localhost

Localhost is a hostname that refers to the computer system on which the calling program is running.

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Deno 1.12 Release Notes

The Deno 1.12 release adds server side WebSockets, support for WASM threads, new web crypto APIs and more.

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What are Diffusion Models?

[Updated on 2021-09-19: Highly recommend this blog post on score-based generative modeling by Yang Song (author of several key papers in the references)]. [Updated on 2022-08-27:...

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Linux ifconfig Command

ifconfig is a network management tool, used to configure and view the status of the network interfaces in Linux

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Deno Deploy Beta 1

Deno Deploy is a multi-tenant distributed JavaScript VM running in 25 data centers across the world.

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A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

I find blockchain fascinating because it extends open source software development to open source + state. This seems to be a genuine/exciting innovation in computing paradigms;...

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Kinda a big announcement

The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even...

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Contrastive Representation Learning

The goal of contrastive representation learning is to learn such an embedding space in which similar sample pairs stay close to each other while dissimilar ones...

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How to Exclude in Grep

In this article, we’re going to show you how to exclude one or multiple words, patterns or directories when searching with grep.

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Deno 1.10 Release Notes

Deno 1.10 improves the built-in test runner, adds support for Web Storage API, structured clone, and more.

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Mailbag #2

Last month, I emailed readers announcing an upcoming mailbag post—the WBW post version of an AMA. 1,500 questions poured in—remarkably interesting, creative questions on a wide...

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Deno 1.9 Release Notes

Deno 1.9 adds a new native HTTP/2 web server, a vastly improved op infrastructure, import completions in the LSP, an interactive permission prompt, blob url support.

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Weight Banding

Weights in the final layer of common visual models appear as horizontal bands. We investigate how and why.

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Branch Specialization

When a neural network layer is divided into multiple branches, neurons self-organize into coherent groupings.

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Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required)...

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Reducing Toxicity in Language Models

Large pretrained language models are trained over a sizable collection of online data. They unavoidably acquire certain toxic behavior and biases from the Internet. Pretrained language...

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Deno 1.8 Release Notes

Deno 1.8 adds experimental support for the WebGPU API, adds support for importing private modules, stabilizes import maps, revamps coverage tooling, adds ICU to provide internationalization...

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Python For Loop

The for loop in Python iterates over the items of a sequence and repeatedly executes a block of statements.

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The ants and the pheromones

TLDR; this is the last edition of The Morning Paper for now. Plus: one strand of research you won’t want to miss! I was listening to...

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Visualizing Weights

We present techniques for visualizing, contextualizing, and understanding neural network weights.

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Curve Circuits

Reverse engineering the curve detection algorithm from InceptionV1 and reimplementing it from scratch.

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Bash wait Command

wait is a command that waits for the given jobs to complete and returns the exit status of the waited for command.

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Deno 1.7 Release Notes

Deno 1.7, one of our largest releases to date, adds cross compilation and 60% smaller binaries for deno compile, a DNS resolver API, support for data...

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Python Tuples

This article will walk you through the basics of Python tuples. Tuples are similar to lists, with the main difference being that the lists are mutable...

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Bash: Write to File

This article explains how to write text to a file in Bash, using the redirection operators and tee command.

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Controllable Neural Text Generation

[Updated on 2021-02-01: Updated to version 2.0 with several work added and many typos fixed.] [Updated on 2021-05-26: Add P-tuning and Prompt Tuning in the “prompt...

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Bash read Command

read is a bash built-in command that reads a line from the standard input (or from the file descriptor) and split into words.

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Deno 1.6 Release Notes

Deno 1.6 adds the ability to build your Deno projects into fully standalone, self-contained executables with `deno compile`. The release also introduces a built-in LSP for...

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Bias in word embeddings

Bias in word embeddings, Papakyriakopoulos et al., FAT*’20 There are no (stochastic) parrots in this paper, but it does examine bias in word embeddings, and how...

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Understanding RL Vision

With diverse environments, we can analyze, diagnose and edit deep reinforcement learning models using attribution.

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who Command in Linux

who is a command-line utility that displays a list of currently logged in users. It can also show the current run level, time of the last...

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Virtual consensus in Delos

Virtual consensus in Delos, Balakrishnan et al. (Facebook, Inc.), OSDI’2020 Before we dive into this paper, if you click on the link above and then download...

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Rmmod Command in Linux

In this article, we’ll talk about how to use the rmmod command to remove modules from the Linux Kernel.

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Deno 1.5 Release Notes

Deno 1.5 improves `deno bundle` with support for tree shaking and a 15x speed improvement. This release also adds the `alert`, `confirm`, and `prompt` APIs and...

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The case for a learned sorting algorithm

The case for a learned sorting algorithm, Kristo, Vaidya, et al., SIGMOD’20 We’ve watched machine learning thoroughly pervade the web giants, make serious headway in large consumer companies,...

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Wall command in Linux

wall is a command-line utility that displays a message on the terminals of all logged-in users. The messages can be either typed on the terminal or...

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How to Install Slack on CentOS 8

Slack is one of the most popular collaboration platform in the world that brings all your communication together. This tutorial explains how to install Slack on...

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The Trump-Biden Debate

In case you missed it, here’s a transcript of the first Trump-Biden Debate: Chris Wallace: Good evening. I’m Chris Wallace and I welcome you to what...

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The Big and the Small

I have a surprise for you. I’ll tell you about it in a minute. First, let’s have a little fun. Come with me. I haven’t told...

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Deno 1.4 Release Notes

Deno 1.4 adds support for the web standard WebSocket API, deno run –watch, and integrated test coverage. This is the largest feature release yet.

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How to Check Java Version

This article explains how to check what version of Java is installed on your Linux system using the command line.

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Usermod Command in Linux

This article covers how to use the usermod command to add a user to a group, change a user shell, login name, home directory, and more.

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Python List reverse

In Python, there are several different ways to reverse a list, depending on what you’re trying to do.

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Neural Architecture Search

Although most popular and successful model architectures are designed by human experts, it doesn’t mean we have explored the entire network architecture space and settled down...

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How to Change the SFTP Port

SFTP is a secure file protocol for transferring files between two hosts over an encrypted connection. The default SFTP port is 22.

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How to Create Tar Gz File

This article describes how to create tar.gz files. By convention, the name of a tar archive compressed with gzip should end with either .tar.gz or .tgz.

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How to Rename Directories in Linux

Renaming directories is one of the most basic operations you often need to perform on a Linux system. This article explains how to rename directories using...

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How to Check Memory Usage in Linux

When troubleshooting system or application slowdown or misbehavior, one of the first things to check is the system memory usage. This article explains how to check...

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How to Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04

This article explains how to install Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04. Jenkins is an open-source automation server that can be used to easily set up continuous integration...

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Python map() Function

The Python’s map() function takes an iterable object, along with a function, and applies that function to each element in the iterable.

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How to Install Steam on Ubuntu 20.04

Steam is a cross-platform entertainment platform developed by Valve Corporation for purchasing and playing video games. This article explains how to install the Steam client on...

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