This post on embeddings by simonw https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/
This one as well by a former intern from a decade ago who now writes on python and ml internals: How Many Lines of C it Takes to Execute a + b in Python? https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/a-war-story-involving...
Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
This one as well by a former intern from a decade ago who now writes on python and ml internals: How Many Lines of C it Takes to Execute a + b in Python? https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/a-war-story-involving...
Ow. There's a paywall halfway through. Don't do what I did and get interested in the story if you aren't up to subscribing.
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#54The visualizations help with the understanding while keeping it engaging too
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ow. There's a paywall halfway through. Don't do what I did and get interested in the story if you aren't up to subscribing.
Maybe the reason for CoW being triggered is reference counting. Does anyone know?
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#56In the end, I think my most popular article of the year ended up being a relatively short note on how Bill Tindall approached software development for the moon landings: https://two-wrongs.com/tindall-on-software-delays.html
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#58https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ - industry insights.
https://www.workspaces.xyz/ - people sharing their home office setup incl. photos.
https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/ - all recent tech articles from companies engineering blogs.
https://leaddev.com/ - leadership stuff.
https://hackernewsletter.com/ - weekly hackernews summary nicely split into categories.
https://www.ben-evans.com/ - product and business around tech with nice deep dives.
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#59Came across them via multiple sources, but what got me hooked was a reference from Robert Morris' work.
Kinda funny to reference this here :D.
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#60Bicycle by Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/ - HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343495 Bartosz has many great blog posts, maybe most famously the one on mechanical watches published in 2022: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ HN posts for Bartosz's blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski
As a cyclist for decades - I still learned a lot - how to put to words that which I had innate muscle memory knowledge of, but no language for.
The demonstrations are fantastic.
Hands down should get some sort of IRL award of meaning.
I forgot I had seen the watch as well... Man this guy is amazing!
Thanks for resurrecting these for me.