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The problem with C++ vs. unsafety is that there is really no boundary: All code is by default unsafe. You will need to go to great lengths to make it all somewhat safe, and then to…

So professional work during a worldwide pandemic with all the hardship that entailed suffered...from working remotely? I don't buy that.

That very much depends on the code you're compiling. The factors that come into play are monomorphization (which means the compiler builds one copy of the code per type it is calle…

There is so much wrong with this article. Throw a little bit of ML pixie dust on everything for more hype? Check. Compare wildly different things as if they were the same? Double c…

Very nice diagrams, they make the article really easy to follow! This really drives the point home that vector search isn't only a qantitative (as in faster), but a qualitative evo…

I totally agree that latency of this solution leaves a lot of room to improvement. But that's totally besides the point of the article, which is that people can get a no-cost seman…

The initial version of this actually used Mighty, but I didn't find any free tier available, so I switched to Cohere to keep the $0 pricetag.

I also found while writing the article but after I had already done my research that cargo-lambda has grown some additional functionality that could have removed the need for the A…

Thank you for the suggestion! I actually thought about using terraform, but I wanted to keep the experiment somewhat minimal regarding technologies and as I had already added AWS L…

When starting this project I thought the same thing, but having done it I honestly cannot tell that much of a difference. Yes, there are two more steps in setting up the Lambda fun…

Author here. This was a fun exercise to produce a semantic search using only free-tier services (which in the case of Cohere means non-commercial use only and in the case of AWS La…

Nick's articles are always a delight to read, and this one is no exception. Openly discussing failure is one part, but coming up with so many ideas and having the gumption to actua…

This is a nice article for people new to async/await in Rust.

Well, if the programmer writes the type annotation to actually have their code checked, how would a gradually typed language differ in practice from a static language? Yes, you can…

Yeah, that one hasn't aged too well. We've all seen the backswing to statically typed languages. Yes, some of them (e.g. typescript) run on top of dynamic langs, or allow for VMs (…

What would that buy you? You train until you push your loss under a certain threshold, then check the external criteria and if they don't hold you train again? Your external criter…

Again, there is a lot of words to describe the fact that machine learning is just lossy compression for a bunch of data with the possibility to interpolate between data points and …

Having seen state of the art neural networks in the 70s and 80s, I am both in awe at the progress that has been made since and deeply unconcerned about AGI. Yes, storage capacity a…

This looks like a fun way to get into programming. I'll have my kids check it out!

I sometimes wonder what CPU designers think when building such weird instructions? They must have some programs in mind that could be run faster with them, or else the additional t…

I used to work on the Rust compiler itself on a Chromebook with a 1.1GHz dual core, 4G RAM and 32G of disk. That's about as far from a high-end PC you can get. Most mid-range phone…

If matthieum hadn't done it, someone else would have (and has; some dupes have appeared and were subsequently removed).

You know there's multi-reddits? In your specific example, https://reddit.com/r/RoastMe+toastme