Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1.0
Kafka is a popular streaming system which provides replicated, sharded, append-only logs. Bufstream is a drop-in replacement for Kafka designed to prioritize data governance and cost efficiency in cloud environments. Like Kafka, Bufstream provides a collection of named, partially ordered logs called topics. Each topic is divided into partitions. Each partition is a totally ordered, […]
The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
Introduction from Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch: When smartphones and social media platforms swept into teens’ lives in the early 2010s, schools experienced their own digital revolution, with 1-to-1 laptops, tablets, and iPads becoming staples in classrooms across the Western world. (1-to-1 means one device for every student.) A decade later, the revolutionary optimism is […]
When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of […]
Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf]
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Unit Testing Numerical Routines
Published 2024-11-12 Reading Time 7 minutes. How would you unit test this function? std::tuple ecef_to_lla(const Eigen::Vector3d& position_ecef_m); This prototype takes a position expressed as cartesian coordinates in the Earth Centered, Earth Fixed (ECEF) reference frame and converts it into latitude, longitude, and altitude. If you are not familiar with aerospace coordinate systems you will still […]
Ohmaps: your image montage is a resistor network
Occasionally there’s a lovely moment when I’m working on a problem and I realise I’m also looking at some other thing that seems completely unrelated. It’s like a metaphor made flesh. These ‘isomorphism moments’ can be powerful because the two seemingly unrelated things can give you insights into each other. Their commonality encourages you think […]
The Lost Reading Items of Ilya Sutskever’s AI Reading List
11 Nov 2024, Taro Langner In this post: An attempt to reconstruct Ilya Sutskever’s 2020 AI reading list (8 min read) I recently shared a summary of a viral AI reading list attributed to Ilya Sutskever, which laid claim to covering ‘90% of what matters’ back in 2020. It boils down the reading items to […]
Watermark Anything
Implementation and pretrained models for the paper Watermark Anything. Our approach allows for embedding (possibly multiple) localized watermarks into images. [arXiv] [Colab] [Podcast] Requirements Installation This repos was tested with Python 3.10.14, PyTorch 2.5.1, CUDA 12.4, Torchvision 0.20.1: conda create -n “watermark_anything” python=3.10.14 conda activate watermark_anything conda install pytorch torchvision pytorch-cuda=12.4 -c pytorch -c nvidia […]
FBDetect: Catching Tiny Performance Regressions at Hyperscale [pdf]
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Defensive Communication (1961)
DEFENSIVE COMMUNICATION by Jack R. Gibb (Transcribed from a mimeographed paper discovered at the University of Toledo, 4/88. Edited only to reduce gender-specific references. des — Note: The original text, with references, appears in Appendix C of the Trust book. Jack has said that this article, which came out of research performed for the Office […]