Explores recent research on instruction finetuning for LLMs, including a cost-effective method for generating synthetic training data from scratch.
Explores recent research on instruction finetuning for LLMs, including cost-effective data generation methods and an overview of new models like Gemma 2.
A technical comparison of self-hosting a service on a Raspberry Pi 5 versus renting a VPS, analyzing costs, complexity, and pros/cons.
A list of upcoming tech talks and events by Alex Merced, focusing on Apache Iceberg, data lakehouses, and data engineering topics.
An interactive guide explaining the CSS Grid template areas feature, highlighting its simplicity and power for layout positioning compared to line numbers.
A tech professional discovers Gergely Orosz's resume guide is free for the unemployed and shares a key tip about linking to published work.
Microsoft confirms unrelated causes for major Azure and CrowdStrike outages that disrupted global services, highlighting digital infrastructure fragility.
A global CrowdStrike software outage caused over 3,000 flight cancellations, disrupting airline IT systems and leading to widespread travel chaos.
Two LockBit ransomware affiliates plead guilty in the U.S., facing decades in prison for cyberattacks that caused millions in damages.
A podcast discussing why all code becomes legacy and how to write modular, maintainable code to reduce future technical debt.
A CrowdStrike software bug caused a global IT outage, crashing Windows PCs with BSODs. A fix has been deployed.
A technical guide to fix the global CrowdStrike BSOD boot loop by deleting a specific driver file in Safe Mode.
A beginner's guide to installing Git, setting up a repository, and making your first commit with step-by-step instructions.
Building a Django job to send activation email reminders before user accounts expire, plus discussion on dependency management.
Introduces CARTE, a foundation model for tabular data, explaining its architecture, pretraining on knowledge graphs, and results.
Guide to deploying a low-cost NVIDIA GPU VM on Azure using MSDN credits for PyTorch and TensorFlow machine learning development.
Explains hash-based bisect debugging, a technique using binary search to pinpoint bugs in compilers and runtimes, making complex debugging feel like magic.
A guide to implementing OpenTelemetry tracing in Ginkgo test suites to debug failures in distributed microservices.
array_find in PHP 8.4 Written on 2024-07-18 PHP 8.4 adds a handful of functions that have been missing for a while: array_find() and its variants. The
Explores the concept of 'integrity by default' in Java, discussing its importance for security and correctness, and a new JEP tying together long-term efforts.
