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Coding Interview Preparation | Codinginterview –A very interesting overview of companies and their spproach yo coding interviews. Good if youre applying for a job there. But also good if you are designing your interview process. Author says: “Take the guesswork out of coding interviews with codinginterview.com. Explore comprehensive guides to hack the process at top companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, and more “
Laurence Tratt: How Might Generative AI Change Programming? –More about a topic that is extremely hot right now
The Case for Models | Concerning Quality –An interesting idea, model based testing. The aurhor says: “Again, I’m writing about models because I have a deep desire to keep software minimal. While I don’t think it’s wrong to simply buckle up and deal with the complexity and raw magnitude of implementations as many of us do, that’s just not the path that I find appealing intuitively.”
ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving –If you, like many, is fascinated and trying to figure out what ChatGPT (and whatever comes next) means, this is a good article: “If an algorithm is the death of high school English, maybe that’s an okay thing.”
What is Steampipe? –Seems useful for someone. Just putting it on this list to track it. Here’s what the author says: “Steampipe is an fantastic tool from Turbot. Steampipe allows you to easily ask questions about your Cloud and SaaS Infrastructure”
ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++ –Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++. Contribute to ggerganov/whisper.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.
When to use gRPC vs GraphQL –Honestly, I wasnt too aware of gRPC, but very aware of GraphQL. So this vomparison could be useful in the future. Author describes the article like this: “We dig into two of the most popular API protocols to see where they work best. “
A Nibble of Git’s Object Store –We all use git all day long. We know its a power tool. Easy to use and easy to shoot yourself in the foot. A footgun. Learn more about git internals for fun and profit! Power and efficiency through content-addressable storage and delta compression
Phlex — fast, object-oriented view framework for Ruby –If youve done a bit of Rails, you might have written some helpers like this. This package seems like a more complete and comprehensive implementation of this idea.
Database Performance Optimization and Scaling in Rails | AppSignal Blog –A decent introductory article about scaling rails applications. Somewhat rails specific, but it does introduce the general principles. Heres the authors blurb: “Improve your Rails application’s performance by fine-tuning and scaling your database.”
Forget about algorithms and models — learn how to solve problems first –An interesting article, stating the obvious. This is highly relevant to someone who teaches college students their in their very first year of learning programming. And yet it is still a subject of debate among my colleagues. Heres the authors’s own words: “t’s not necessarily about what programming language you learn or use. It’s about how you approach problem solving.”
Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code –Another amazing and somewhat scary example of ChatGPT, the ai tool that everyone is takking about. Heres what the author says: lI’m using this year’s Advent of Code to learn Rust—with the assistance of GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s new ChatGPT. I think one of the most exciting applications of large language …”
Creating a Chart –I’ve been experimenting with Apache Superset to create charts and dashboards. The features are very powerul and consequently can be obscure. I just found this doc which seems helpful
Pie Chart in Preset –Description and usage of the Pie chart in Preset Cloud.
How to Frame a Roof (with Pictures) – wikiHow –How did this particular link end up here? I am learning to construct small wooden models. Currently I am making a simple framed house. I needed to review how a roof truss is constructed. Here is what the author says: “Framing a roof is the l. ast step in framing new construction. While most home builders will outsource the construction of roofing trusses–the rafter supports of the roof itself–learning to frame a roof yourself is one of the true arts of…”
How to post Instagram posts on Mastodon using IFTTT –As you can tell, I’ve been trying this and it is a little squirly. But I think I got it to work. Author says: “A lot of people ...
Read more →Refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases with refurb –I havent tried this tool. If it works (a big if) it would be very useful. Heres what the author says: “As we know, Python is an interpreted language. Interpreted code is always slower than direct machine code because it takes a lot more…”
Robotics Lab @ Brandeis –Our new web site for the Robotics Lab. Finally after 5 years I found the time and the help to build a half decent web site
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow –I’m interested what’s going to happen as ChatGPT gets better. I hadn’t thought about StackOverflow. But I was thinking about students using it to do homework assignments, like papers and essays. Here’s what the author says: “People have been using OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to flood the site with AI responses, but Stack Overflow’s mods say these ‘have a high rate of being incorrect.’”
ChatGPT –For 2022, the performance of this AI is truly amazing. Maybe in a year or five it will seem simple but for now, its crzay good and a bit scary: “A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges. “