Data Engineering Vault: A 1000 Node Second Brain for DE Knowledge
Search Search IconIcon to open search Last updated Aug 27, 2024 Welcome to the Data Engineering Vault an integral part of my Second Brain. It’s a curated network of data engineering knowledge, designed to facilitate exploration and discovery. Here, you’ll find over 100+ interconnected terms, each serving as a gateway to deeper insights. Similar to […]
U.S. fleet welcomes newest USS New Jersey, the first gender-neutral submarine
3-minute read Show Caption Hide Caption USS New Jersey submarine ready for commissioning at NWS Earle Take a tour of the USS New Jersey, the third Navy ship to honor the state, before commissioning ceremonies at NWS Earle. A Saturday ceremony in Sandy Hook Bay welcomed the new USS New Jersey into the U.S. fleet. […]
Linux 6.11 Released
Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. “I’m once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it’s Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out.” Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files, […]
Compression Dictionary Transport
HTTP P. Meenan, Ed. Internet-Draft Google LLC Intended status: Standards Track Y. Weiss, Ed. Expires: 1 March 2025 Shopify Inc 28 August 2024 Compression Dictionary Transport draft-ietf-httpbis-compression-dictionary-19 Abstract This document specifies a mechanism for dictionary-based compression in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). By utilizing this technique, clients and servers can reduce the size of transmitted […]
Declarative Programming with AI/LLMs
What Is Declarative Programming Broadly speaking, there are two ways to program/instruct a computer to perform a task, they are imperative vs declarative programming. Imperative programming is what we do the most, we write all the code necessary for the computer to perform a task such that the only thing left for the computer to […]
Randomness extractors: making fair coins out of biased coins
Introduction In a previous post titled Fair coin from biased coin, I looked at the problem of creating a uniform random coin given access to a biased coin. I looked at multiple approaches, and determined that they’re actually all the same in some sense. Recently, while reading Turing award winner Avi Widgerson‘s excellent book Mathematics […]
The Death of the Magazine
Magazines are businesses, much like other companies. But there’s one big difference—they almost always get smaller, not bigger. And I’m not just talking about the number of pages. For a start, let’s look back at 1960, and make a comparison. Here are the five largest companies on the Fortune 500 back then. Revenues in millions […]
Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi
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Retiring from the Idea of Retirement
I’m not here to tell you that you should be working for a monthly salary for the rest of your life. Also, it’s not about passive income or financial independence and definitely not a promoter of a hustle culture. That’s not the main idea. The main idea is this: accept that you should do things […]
CP/M forty years on – what it was, and why it still matters
It’s now 40 years since the heyday of CP/M — the first serious attempt at an operating system for microcomputers. In 1981 CP/M ran on almost every desktop computer that could be fitted with at least one floppy disk drive — even Apple computers. Almost every school in the UK had a computer that ran […]