Listen to this email instead 🙂 – Spotify – iTunes When I walked into the first floor of the Facebook building on University Avenue, in Palo Alto, I wasn’t sure if I was in a frat house or a startup. … Read more
Just intonation (JI) today falls under the umbrella of microtonal music, because it involves playing “between the notes” of the 12-tone scale we’re used to. As I type microtonal, my spellchecker decorates it with a sad squiggle, confirming I’ve drifted … Read more
Open source projects are about more than lines of code; they’re fuled by passionate people creating lasting change. In June 1994, several of us had a pretty neat idea: Let’s create an Open Source version of the DOS operating system. … Read more
by Evan Silberman, Duckrabbit Solutions Haskell is a programming language invented sometime in the 20th century by Scottish logicians as a prank. Fifteen years or so ago, for reasons I can no longer remotely recall, I started learning Haskell. Now, … Read more
Comments (GitHub discussion) tl;dr: I learned some Vulkan and made a game engine with two small game demos in 3 months. The code for the engine and the games can be found here: https://github.com/eliasdaler/edbr Table Of Contents This article documents … Read more
For the past 2 years, I’ve been leading a team of 4 engineers: 3 developers (including myself) and 1 QA. This is the first time I’ve managed a software team, after writing software full-time for 6 years. Here are some … Read more
I consider myself to be a pretty good prompter. Been using the LLMs for a long time now. Most of the time I manage to get the desired results out of LLM models. Do you think this skill is anywhere … Read more
Updated on July 18th, 2023 in #dev-business Placing an order and capturing a payment are really different actions. I also learned a lot in a few days. Quick Jump: Placing an Order for Pickup | Placing Orders in Multiple Ways … Read more
LLMs can help you achieve state-of-the-art results on text classification tasks (like sentiment analysis, labeling, etc) just by describing the list of classes and descriptions. We recently reached our 500k classification milestone using LLMs and fine-tuned models 🎉, and below … Read more
Over the last five years, processors have gone from being single pieces of silicon to a collection of smaller chiplets that collectively act as if they’re one big chip. This approach means that the CPU’s functional pieces can be built … Read more