cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

vedit

#!/bin/bash
cupsfilter ${1} > ${1}.pdf
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sOutputFile=merged2.pdf ${1}.pdf merged.pdf
mv merged2.pdf merged.pdf
rm ${1}.pdf

veekaybee

Machine Learning Design Patterns

This book is all about patterns for doing ML. It's broken up into several key parts, building and serving. Both of these are intertwined so it makes sense to read through the whole thing, there are very many good pieces of advice from seasoned professionals. The parts you can safely ignore relate to anything where they specifically use GCP. The other issue with the book it it's very heavily focused on deep learning cases. Not all modeling problems require these. Regardless, let's dive in. I've included the stuff that was relevant to me in the notes.

Most Interesting Bullets:

• Machine learning models are not deterministic, so there are a number of ways we deal with them when building software, including setting random seeds in models during training and allowing for stateless functions, freezing layers, checkpointing, and generally making sure that flows are as reproducible as possib

0xabad1dea

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The Eggbug Times
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the fourth website to ever exist
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alexkyllo

"""Use PyPika to generate a SQL query on DuckDB over parquet files in cloud storage."""
import adlfs
import duckdb
import polars as pl
from polars import col
from pyarrow import dataset as ds
from pypika import Query, Table
from pypika import analytics as an

# Create a filesystem representing an Azure Blob Storage account

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

gramian

#!/bin/bash

# project: build_oct
# version: 1.12 (2023-01-01)
# authors: C. Himpe (0000-0003-2194-6754), M. Koehler (0000-0003-2338-9904)
# license: BSD-2-Clause License (opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
# summary: Build Octave and numerical dependencies from source (in Ubuntu 20.04 with GCC >= 10.3).

# requires hardware: either X86-64 with AVX2 or ARM64 with NEON.
# requires software packages: octave libpcre2-dev libreadline-dev libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libfontconfig1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

timurcatakli

const publicPath = 'public';
// Node os module
// The os module provides a number of operating system-related utility methods.
// It can be accessed using:
const os = require('os');
// Using a single monolithic configuration file impacts comprehension and
// removes any potential for reusability.
// As the needs of your project grow, you have to figure out the means to manage
// webpack configuration more effectively.

dazfuller

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Darren Fuller

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: