Beating the bookies with their own numbers
Abstract:The online sports gambling industry employs teams of data analysts to build forecast models that turn the odds at sports games in their favour. While several betting strategies have been proposed to beat bookmakers, from expert prediction models and arbitrage strategies to odds bias exploitation, their returns have been inconsistent and it remains to be […]
The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture
Note: This post is based on a talk that I was supposed to give at a local FOSS United meetup but couldn’t due to health issues. Prologue “… This puts the future squarely in the hands of those who know computers not for what they are, but for everything they have the potential to be.” […]
Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
/ A ‘majority’ of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Bluesky Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO […]
Islands of the Feral Pigs
Article body copy Francis “Bully” Mission Sr., president and founder of Mission Animal Control, is in a good mood when I meet him at a strip mall parking lot on the south side of the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i. He and his son Levi have just found two “squeakers”—pigs no more than a few months […]
Visual inference exploration and experimentation playground
inferit is a visual take on llm inference. Most inference frontends are limited to a single visual input/output “thread”. This makes it hard to compare output from different models, prompts and sampler settings. inferit solves this with its UI that allows for an unlimited number of side-by-side generations. This makes it a perfect fit to […]
Avremu: An 8-Bit AVR Microcontroller Simulator Written in LaTeX
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Git and Jujutsu: In Miniature
2024-11-09 Last night in bed, I realised we’d encountered a scenario at work during the day where something happened so fluidly in jujutsu that it’d make a good case story! Let’s compare, step by step, how it’d look with git. The stage is set: you’re working on a big, old, legacy codebase, and you’re 10 […]
Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write
Posted on 2024-11-11 This blog post was written together with , who made coooool visualizations like the picture at the end of the post! According to wikipedia: The “bus factor” is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or […]
Tinfoil.com – Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds
Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds Early Recorded Sounds & Wax Cylinders Explore early sound recording methods, two-minute wax cylinder records and antique phonographs; see plenty of rare vintage photos; and enjoy listening to early recorded sounds taken directly from the original wax cylinders. Cylinder of the […]
How I ship projects at big tech companies
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get it right, because I’m good at it. Shipping in a big tech company is a very different skill to writing code, and lots of people who are […]