Crafting an LLM from the ground up? Dive intoSebastian Raschka’s guide. It tackles everything: data wrangling to toeing the ethical line. Seasoned ML pros will nod in approval. Craving a sharp take on AI’s charming deceptions?Narayanan & Kapoor's"AI Snake Oil" spills the beans on marketing myths wit..

Imagine tearing through1 billion pages in a single dayon a shoestring budget. This crawler pulled it off with12 nodes and some savvy async maneuvering. But here's the kicker: it wasn’t the fetching that choked the CPU. Nope, it was the parsing. Today’s web behemoths, bloated with JavaScript and othe..

cgroupsand namespaces anchor Linux containers, isolating resources and processes like gatekeepers with a mission. On macOS and Windows, these containers ride in VMs withWSL2orLinuxKit, putting on their "welcome to the virtual world" hats. EnterrunC, executing OCI-built images with isolation flair, w..

GitHub Actions injections areone of the most common vulnerabilities in projects. Use CodeQL to scan workflows and protect against these risks effectively...

Branch prediction matters. Why? About a quarter of instructions are branches, and modern CPUs nail an accuracyabove 90%. Yet, those often-pesky branches can choke CPUs, stalling instruction flow. So, take a wrench to yourif-else logic. Trim indirect branches whenever you can—your CPU will thank you...

A weary-eyed Polish coder,Przemysław Dębiak, bested an OpenAI model in a grueling 10-hour face-off, reminiscent ofJohn Henry’sepic duel against the steam-powered behemoth...

AV1 Film Grain Synthesis (FGS)tricks the eye by imitating film grain after compression. Cuts bitrates like a ninja and keeps the artistry alive. Models grasp grain's pattern and punch, ensuring sharp visuals on bandwidth-challenged gadgets. Grainy magic, delivered neatly!..

PostgreSQLjuggles 100,000 events per second. Just needs some index wizardry and query twerking. The problem? Table bloat and Write Amplification. Gross. Enter the mightyCOPY—it bulldozes through bulk data, politely ignoring the usualInsertdrag. And those recursiveCTEs? They pull off loose index scan..

Uncovered a memory regression inGo 1.24. Pored over memory patterns in countless pods like a detective with too much caffeine. Pinpointed sneaky allocation blunders...

Buntries to swallow files over 4GB and promptly chokes. The culprit? ItsBuffercaps out at 4GB. The fix? Slice files into chunks under 4GB but keep the buffer lean, no more than 128KB, to keep things zippy. Pull out the big guns—workers. This move fires up all CPU cores, slashing processing time from..