A few days ago, I resigned from my job at the art gallery to write Escaping Flatland full time. One day I hope to be a good enough writer to put words to how thankful I am to the many … Read more
Exactly 15 years ago on November 9th, 2009, I got my first MacBook and started learning how to build apps. I was fascinated with the idea that you can build something that other people will find useful and enjoy using. … Read more
In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years. I wrote a post in May that told the story of the sale, but I’d like to share more about the … Read more
⏴ Back to all articles Published on 2024-10-30 Table of contents Discussions: /r/rust, /r/programming I have written about my on-going rewrite-it-to-Rust effort at work: 1, 2, 3. And now it’s finished. Let’s have a look back at what worked, what … Read more
Recently, I’ve been working on a new approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm called RaBitQ. The author has already provided a C++ implementation that runs quite fast. I tried to rewrite it in Rust (yet another RiiR). But I found that … Read more
Written at 2024-10-10 When you interact with a text file using an editor, what you see doesn’t necessarily reflect the data stored in the file. Sure, the contents of plain text files are byte codes encoded in formats like ASCII, … Read more
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “Mannerist architecture is architecture that was strange then and is now.” This was just one of the thoughts Robert Venturi shared in a lecture on architectural history and design … Read more
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This post is meant to guide you through some of the lessons I’ve learned while working with multi-terabyte datasets. The lessons shared are focused on what someone may face as the size of their dataset scales up and some of … Read more
The best websites are home-cooked meals. Andrew’s Selkouutiset Archive was birthed after I realized there was no obvious way to fetch the previous articles of the “Easy Finnish” daily news broadcast. This annoyed me as a student of the language. … Read more