This is a short collection of lessons learned using Colab as my main coding learning environment for the past few months. Some tricks are Colab specific, others as general Jupyter tips, and still more are filesystem related, but all have proven useful for me.
<p>Wowza! It’s been a while since Part 2, and so much has happened. I’m glad to be back, and I have some “unfinished business” I need to wrap up. Namely: Finish this blog series.</p>
Learn my 10-step process of how to start a business while keeping a full-time day job, from someone who's successfully done it. What's your side business?
I’ve been engrossed in a few recent academic pre-prints which are skeptical of AI. These are not just from a business / hype-train perspective, but digging deeper into how machine learning research…
GitFlow is the most popular Git branching model. After using it (and, more importantly, after seeing how it is used) for over a year now, I can say with confidence: I hate it. In the article, I try to explain why, and offer a better alternative.
I made another thing! This is a torus, made from 24 crescent-shaped pieces of paper with slots cut into them so they interlock with each other. I followed these instructions on cutoutfoldup.com. There is also a template with some ideas for nice variations here. The idea of this model is to highlight Villarceau circles. Everyone…
The channel linked to in this post contains a number of long walks through various locations in Japan. It helps that the videos are well stabilized, without commentary and have footage of locations that are normal rather than touristy.
Hi, I’m Greg, and for the last two years, I’ve been developing a 3d fractal exploration game, which started as just a “what if” experiment. I would describe myself as technical artist, meaning, I am…
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- OpenSource and computer-graphics geek. I like/ride motorcycles too! Ex-Canonical/Ubuntu, CTO & co-founder of spot-on, currently at Heindenhain Numeric B.V.
Recently, I came across an interesting article stating that the Chinese and Mongolian races believe that they, the bradycephalic Mongoloid races, especially of Southeast Asia, including North East India, are descendants of the 'Dragon',their venerated animal, who is also known as the 'Reptilian Alien', as the Mongoloid races appeared ' Alien' to the Westerners when…
Either you’ve already heard of pandoc or if you have searched online for markdown to pdf or similar, you are sure to come across pandoc. This tutorial will give you a basic idea of using pandoc to generate pdf from GitHub style markdown file. The main purpose is to highlight what customizations I did to generate pdf for self-publishing my ebooks. It wasn’t easy to arrive at the set-up I ended up with, so I hope this will be useful for those looking to use pandoc to generate pdf. Specifically aimed at technical books that has code snippets.
There’s a confusing array of options available for converting HTML to PDF. Which is the best for your app? This article reviews the most popular options.
Turning procedural and structural knowledge into programs has established methodologies, but what about turning knowledge into probabilistic models? I explore a few examples of what such a process could look like.
My name is Daniel Holden. I'm a researcher at Ubisoft Montreal using Machine Learning for character animation and other applications. I'm also a Digital Artist and Writer. My interests are Computer Graphics, Game Development, Theory of Computation, and Programming Languages.
I thought it would be fun to use Stefan Krause’s benchmark tool to, only for the sake of competition, do some performance comparison between the most well-known front-end frameworks and UI libraries…
Overview Threads and locks are a software-defined formalization of the hardware underneath, and as such comprise the simplest possible concurrency model. It forms the basis of other concurrency abstractions built on top of it, so it’s important to understand in this regards. However, it’s difficult or impossible to build reliable, scalable systems directly on these primitives. While most every language has support for threads and locks, CPython remains special in its use of a global interpreter lock that prevents threads from concurrently accessing shared memory, because CPython’s memory management is not thread-safe.
Wait, what do you mean make my app/site work in China? I don’t have to do anything to make my app work in the US or Singapore or Kenya or anywhere else, and I didn’t make the Chinese government angry, so it should just work in China, right? Sadly, it’s not so simple. If your app/website servers aren’t hosted from within China, then, for all intents and purposes, it’s blocked. I mean, it will probably technically load, but will be excruciatingly, unusably slow. And sometimes it will just not load at all for hours at a time. This is true for all services hosted outside of the firewall, even in Hong Kong.
Rob Pike, one of the creators of the Go language, stated that he expected the language to be adopted by C++ programmers, a prediction that hasn't been realised. Recently however at the HFT firm where I work, the success of a team's move from Python to Go for some pieces of non-speed-critical infrastructure led to…
In reality, you are actually coinciding given two points with the points of your ruler. Then you will say, these points are separated by x unit in length.
This post discusses the benefits of full-stack data science generalists over narrow functional specialists. The later will help you execute and bring process...
Like most people who’ve played it, I love Tetris. I still remember playing it for the first time on a friend’s Nintendo Game Boy. You may already have the theme song stuck in your head. Not only is…
Today we’ll look at the implementation of a data structure wl_list, it belongs to the wayland library and demonstrates a very clever use of the C preprocessor.
Disclaimer: this post is sort of a motivating post for students. Professional programmers may find it uninteresting or painful (especially if you code in C# or Java or JavaScript). C++ is the hardest…
The topic of how accessible it is for newbies and seasoned developers alike to learn CSS has been gaining steam as the complexity of the tools around it
How did East Asians come to be referred to as yellow-skinned? It was the result of a series of racial mappings of the world and had nothing to do with the actual color of people’s skin. ...
The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That's because they are reductions of what they represent. If a map were to represent the territory with perfect fidelity, it would no longer be a reduction and thus would no longer be useful to us.
Many programming guides recommend to begin scripts with the #! /usr/bin/env shebang in order to to automatically locate the necessary interpreter. For example, for a Python script you would use #! /usr/bin/env python, and then the saying goes, the script would “just work” on any machine with Python installed. The reason for this recommendation is that /usr/bin/env python will search the PATH for a program called python and execute the first one found… and that usually works fine on one’s own machine.
Itchio has become the go-to digital storefront for weird, personal and raw games — largely because it’s willing to go where Steam can’t. But as the platform grows bigger, can Itchio maintain its core values?